"Wait, that's a female figure isn't it?"
"Yea, wearing whites. Is she here to frighten us? covering up to her face in whites too?"
"Probably, but i hope for her sake that it is not the thought running in her mind otherwise no matter whose daughter she is in this community, i will not spare her!"
"Oh yea, maybe we should start running because i feel a premonition of something i don't want to say. Look at the goose bumps on my skin man"
"You run, i won't"
"fine with me, goodnight then. I ain't out for trouble"
The one who spoke last then turned around and walked back to where they came from. Even though he did not know if the lady was out to frightened them, he was not going to take that risk. The topic about Maiden Houdini they discussed a while ago made him extra wary of random people, what if she was Maiden Houdini?
"I am thinking too much" he knocked his head with his fist lightly, leaving the alley without looking back.
Meanwhile,
"Are you here to scare me?" the bloke asked, his tone sounding like he was jesting, after noticing the all-whites lady approaching his way as if she was intending to collide with him.
But the lady never replied and all she did when they were only a few inches away was to give him an unforeseen punch that came with great force and intent that his nose was either broken or almost broken with certitude.
"Fork you!" the bloke held his bleeding nose, double up and moaned in pain. Had it been day time, he would have surely see stars in daylight. Hostility crept into the air around them notwithstanding the fact that they were strangers.
The bloke barely recovered from the shock and pain when another blow landed on his back, prompting him to kneel on the ground.
Who could have thought before Specter arrived at the scene and take Rasha away, she already beat the living daylight out of that bloke until he nearly passed out.
"Argh" he curled up on the ground vomiting the sound of weakness. Never had he imagined that the lady would resort to violence after concluding that she could only be pranking. Moreover he was a man thus, how could the thought of getting beaten black and blue by a woman ever cross his mind.
"Argh" the pain was immense. He wished he had seen the lady's face at least to make sure she would never get away with what she did!
In the meantime, at Specter's,
"What was that! did you have to resort to violence just because of a mere gossip?"
Specter was oh-so angry that veins could be seen on his forehead. The problem was not about the beating alone, what if she was caught and her identity was discovered? Despite being nefarious, Specter had a good reputation of being harmonious in that community but what would happen if they discovered that Maiden Houdini was housing at his?
"Don't shout at me" Rasha did not spare him from her hostile glare too before she stormed out of the mid-size sitting room and up and back to the balcony.
Honestly, if the gossip was all about her then she wouldn't even frown let alone assault that bloke however they included someone she would never accept to be bad-mouthed that's, her father, Abbas Rifi.
Sitting at the previous position, Rasha stared the horizon, darkened by night. Her bandaged hands balled into fists as the degrading words about her father, said by the bloke she had beaten repeated in her mind.
He was a perfect man and she hate the fact that she was his daughter. Abbas Rifi was the only person worthy of Rasha's protection and tears. Although she was not crying now, she swore to protect his name which no one in the world would get such treatment from her, the callous Maiden Houdini.