"Hey, did you hear? Someone got ambushed in the Old Alley!"
"I heard it was pretty brutal. By the time they found him, he seemed to have gone mad."
"Wasn't it said he was drunk when he got messed with? Has he sobered up yet?"
"I also heard when his buddies asked him who did it, he just kept saying 'Cat' and 'monster' and stuff like that. He must have been really scared out of his mind."
"He killed a kitten not long ago, didn't he? I gave him a piece of my mind, and he kicked me for it. It still hurts. If you ask me, it's karma... Sigh, boss, another deep-fried dough stick, please!"
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Early in the morning, at breakfast spots near the Old Building District, people talked about the tattooed man while eating their breakfasts.
