"Kick him harder," I heard them shout. I hesitated on the corner. The right thing to do would be to confront them. To save the poor bugger who was on the receiving end of the boots.
But I was a coward.
Not only that, I thought gingerly touching my temples, I was only just recovering from the kicking the Squad had given me. I stood in the darkness, shuddering and shrinking at the sounds of leather hitting flesh.
"Okay, lads," I heard the same voice shout. "Ees had enough. Probably shouldn't kill 'im. I can't be arsed with the paperwork." There was laughter, the sound of one last boot hitting a body and then the sound of five sets of boots running off into the night - luckily, in the opposite direction from where I hid.
I waited for a few moments and then rounded the corner. There was a body on the ground, a collection of clothes, bones and blood. I reached down. He was still breathing.
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