Life Afterwards

Prologue

What Happened?
There was a barber and his wife,
and she was beautiful...
A foolish barber and his wife;
she was his reason and his life,
and she was beautiful...
And she was virtuous...
And he was...

Sweeney lifts his head up so his neck is revealed to the boy that was stepping up to him with Sweeney's blade that he dropped; after a moment of process from the boy, Sweeney's neck was slit by him. Killing him almost immediately.

The boy leaves with the blade as his face looked like he's seen too much for a boy his age, because he has. He goes out of the bake house, and goes upstairs to leave. He's stopped by a lady and a man though, but the lady was in a disguise. They were going into a carriage, and the boy hid the blade and looked up at the two. No greeting smile, no nothing... it's almost like he's in a trance (which he's not, just traumatized).

The man goes over as the lady steps in the carriage. He goes down to the boy's height and asks him, "Are you alright, child?" The boy looked at the man and shook his head.

"What's happened?" The man looked sympathetic, but the boy just shook his head again and left. But the man asks something more, "Where are you going? Do you have anywhere to go?"

"...no... no where that'll take me unless it's the one place I don't want to go back to..." the boy says, stopping but not looking at the man.

"Will you like to leave London with us?" The man asks, the boy looks back with a cocked brow, "Though you don't know me?"

"Why not? You seem to not like being here..." The man says, as the boy walks over a bit closer to him. "I'm Anthony, by the way. Anthony Hope." He awkwardly says, just noticing fully that he didn't even introduce himself to the boy.

The boy stays put, still in a distance from the man but he replies, "Tobias. But Toby is what I'm called by others mostly..."

Anthony nods, smiling. "Pleasure meeting you, Toby."

"And to answer your question fully on if I will leave London with you two, I will." Toby says, putting the blade he's been hiding, in a pocket. "But where will we go instead?" He adds in questioning.

"However far this man will take us..." Anthony says, sighing lightly afterwards.

"Okay..." Toby steps closer to Anthony, as he turns to get in the carriage next to the disguised lady. He asks her name as the man that controls the carriage is out getting his horses ready for the trip.

"Johanna." She says, simply.

Anthony stepped in the carriage then, after talking to the man that'll control it. "It'll be a long ride, but we'll be free right when we leave London." He says, smiling at them both.