Long golden hair fell in waves around his small, subtly-tapered ears, and a pair of sunglasses rested in the breast pocket of his suit jacket. The city rolled by outside the limousine, eventually giving way to suburbs as the diver closed efficiently upon his destination. Not an hour after he had arrived in that city's airport, the man who was Greed itself, now wearing his sunglasses and carrying a gold-capped cane of polished obsidian, stood at the doorstep of a certain family who had, twenty years past, placed their names upon a contract with him. The doorbell rang without him needing touch it as, with an infuriating swagger, one of the Devil's seven faces walked up the steps of the front porch. A commotion within gave away their presence that afternoon, and, slowly, the door crept open to reveal the frightened face, that of a wife who knew what was about to happen and recognized its inevitability, but nonetheless wished it didn't have to be this way. It was the sheepish expression of someone who was thinking desperately of a way out. He hadn't left them one; Pride was not his sin, after
Long golden hair fell in waves around his small, subtly-tapered ears, and a pair of sunglasses rested in the breast pocket of his suit jacket. The city rolled by outside the limousine, eventually giving way to suburbs as the diver closed efficiently upon his destination. Not an hour after he had arrived in that city's airport, the man who was Greed itself, now wearing his sunglasses and carrying a gold-capped cane of polished obsidian, stood at the doorstep of a certain family who had, twenty years past, placed their names upon a contract with him. The doorbell rang without him needing touch it as, with an infuriating swagger, one of the Devil's seven faces walked up the steps of the front porch. A commotion within gave away their presence that afternoon, and, slowly, the door crept open to reveal the frightened face, that of a wife who knew what was about to happen and recognized its inevitability, but nonetheless wished it didn't have to be this way. It was the sheepish expression of someone who was thinking desperately of a way out. He hadn't left them one; Pride was not his sin, after