Aldrich didn't care about the commotion in the carriage which was carrying all of his groceries and things.
He hopped out of the carriage and ran to the alley right behind it. There he found a slumped figure, he got closer and even with the dim light he saw the face clearly.
It was an old beggar woman, he found her once begging outside of his apartment building. The woman's hair was entirely white and her skin was crumbled and dry and filled with cracks, on
her face and exposed arms he noted brown sunspots.
Her eyes didn't seem to have much clarity, they were clouded and even looked muddled. The
old woman had a hemp bag opened before her and some passerby's dropped a copper or two in the bag.
Aldrich was one of the people who gave her a few coppers. Right now she was beaten and was bleeding from her nose and lips, her rags were worn and torn even more than before.
