Hannibal closes the distance to the attacker, takes his hand out of his pocket and briefly, almost casually, slashes at his throat.
A spray of blood glistens in the distant light of a cab passing the mouth of the alley, and Hannibal gets a handkerchief from his other pocket to clean his scalpel while the attacker crumbles to ground, gurgling, and then falls silent and stops to move.
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Date: 2017-04-23 10:10 pm (UTC)A spray of blood glistens in the distant light of a cab passing the mouth of the alley, and Hannibal gets a handkerchief from his other pocket to clean his scalpel while the attacker crumbles to ground, gurgling, and then falls silent and stops to move.