【砂理/r】今夜谁人坠入情网维里塔斯·拉帝奥第一次见到那个赌徒是在公司的酒会上。那时这男人尚未评上p46的职称，还是个初来乍到的新人，那张勾魂摄魄的脸年轻到甚至可以称之为稚嫩，还没有后来那么锋利的线条，只有那双独特的眼睛里闪着异样的光芒。后来他迅速地升职，这种场合他带着蜂蜜般的发色和橙胸绿鸠的眼睛穿过人群的窃窃私语从容而至，拉帝奥清楚那都是些什么样子的非议——下贱的茨岗尼亚奴隶，被判了死刑的罪犯，尸山血海里走出来的疯子——席间觥筹交错，看着那个小奴隶在一片纸醉金迷间得体地应酬着这群自诩文明社会人话间百转千回的讽刺，维利塔斯皱了皱眉。

他不喜欢那家伙——尽管青年生着一张过于漂亮的脸蛋，金发的尤物，异域风情的甜心，他讨厌和他的交往与周旋，砂金讲话时那种拿腔做调的浓情蜜意让人有点恶心，拉帝奥的同事曾阴恻恻评价道这新人应该和打着绸缎蝴蝶结的哈巴狗待在一起摇头摆尾，乖乖做贵妇的玩物。然而拉帝奥更不喜欢的是他轻浮外表下隐藏的锐利，就像他粉色墨镜下那双妖冶的眼睛。真理医生有预感，当眼前笑眯眯的人收起伪装的随和，粉色紫色的迷人荧光水母随蔚蓝海潮褪去，原地只会留下深黑不见暗礁的灏溔域；犹如一个漩涡，海妖的歌声引诱着船只，稍有不慎就会粉身碎骨。

Nightmares have always been a constant in his life. From the day he was forced to abandon his home —and his beloved mother— to become a Gurkha, to when he had to make his first kill. And even after escaping that chained life and becoming a Mercenary, nightmares have always been present. Every single episode in his life has been revived over and over and over in tenebrous dreams.