Mafia 18. Nightmare Seller.

Scene one.
One of the central city districts. A young man walks slowly down an empty street, carrying a plush heart-shaped pillow filled with sawdust. He constantly looks at it and smiles. A flying arrow pierces his iron shoulder, the young man drops the pillow and curses the archer. At that moment, a large bat flies up to him from behind…

Scene two.
A country garden, midnight. A young woman approaches a house; she has a small travel bag on her shoulder with unusual contents – it contains poisonous berries, toadstools, a couple of dried lizards, and several vials of colorful liquids. The woman carefully climbs onto the porch, tries to open the door, but it is locked. Then, the woman goes around the house from the other side, looks into the window, and sees the Gardener Arandor slowly walking around the room. The woman looks closer, and she is overcome with horror – a huge bloody wound gapes in the gardener's chest, and a strange figure made of the gardener's entrails, braided into knots and connected with his ribs, is laid out on the floor. In the middle of the figure lies a piece of paper with six red diamonds drawn on it.

Scene three.
A spacious tavern hall. There are surprisingly few people in the tavern today; the only noisy group sits in the corner, and it consists of only three people – an executioner, a peasant woman, and an undertaker. Soon, two of them leave the table, and the peasant woman remains; a stranger in a hooded cloak sits down next to her, fills his pipe with tobacco, and they talk about something until morning. The executioner HoM[M]ie sits in the opposite corner and orders a large jug of ale – he still misses his bride very much.

Scene four.
The undertaker Brackman runs out of the tavern. He suddenly feels very bad, so bad that he runs somewhere aimlessly. Eventually, he ends up in some dead end and falls to the ground. A man in a cloak approaches him, and with a sharp blade, he grants the undertaker immortality and relieves him of his suffering. Then, the stranger takes a pipe from the undertaker's pocket and begins a terrible feast.

Scene five.
The madman Xostor walks tiredly through the prison dungeons. He is attracted by one of the cells – in it lies the fortune teller Ta Kotoraya...; there are no marks on her body, but she shows no signs of life. Xostor carefully examines her cell for a while but finds nothing suspicious and leaves the dungeons. The sun rises over the city.