Characters: Falco Lombardi and Hijikata Toshirou
Content: Falco and Rou's pasts catch up to them in the form of the gangs of Solare.
Setting: The backstreets of Solare
Time: Dusk
Warnings: Violence, swearing
Normally, a day in port for Falco consisted of wandering around the city and seeing the sights. Not for Solare, however. Solare was Falco's hometown, and he hated it. There was nothing but bad memories for him in this town. A trip to Solare meant making a beeline straight to the McCloud residence - with old man James missing and most likely dead, and Falco wanted to make sure poor Mrs. McCloud was doing all right.
She was. But a visit from Falco was always welcome in the McCloud home.
There was another reason Falco didn't like going out in Solare - the chances of running into old "friends" were pretty high. Falco tried to keep to himself on the way back to the Victoria II. So far, so good, no one he recognized in sight.