Having finally returned home, he was doing everything he could to buy himself time before he would have to confront his family. XXX Goddamn, he knew he was doing this so that he could be of use, but these people had better be paying him or at least giving him something for all this work. Chambering a round, Ted squeezed the trigger and sent the deer slug flying across the store and into the gunman’s shoulder, delivering enough destructive power to cleave off his arm with an eruption of blood. But in a way, it was. His eyesight had degenerated to the point where he could barely navigate the office building. The job was split up into two divisions: translating the text on the walls from their numerous languages and figuring out the meaning in the Black Stigmata symbols depending on their placement in the words
