"Between hammer and anvil..." The man thought darkly, as he looked at the two women in the living room of his house.
His Madeline was standing on his left, clenching her fists tightly baring her teeth, and shaking with rage. The man remained silent knowing his wife well, and that at such moments it was better for him to remain silent and see what would happen, and perhaps intervene at a critical moment - although Mark knew that Madeline would not do anything stupid and that she would cool down quickly enough for a logical conversation.
On the right side stood a frightened short chubby woman with a light pink shade of hair, and looking at her more closely, Mark could easily guess her and Madeline's family ties.
The frightened woman tried with her last efforts to calm her daughter and explain something, but Madeline did not want to listen to anything.

Mark really, really, really didn't want to interfere in other people's family affairs, - but the current situation didn't leave him many choices.
"Alright ladies, - now please calm down, and let's stop before we make things much worse. OK?
I admit that sometimes things get resolved faster if people fight and shout - but now let's take a deep breath and try to figure out what's going on, what it led to, and what we should do about it now..." Mark said calmly, and ...just in case taking both women by the shoulder and spreading them a little apart from each other.
And when the light-haired woman only short looked at him, Madeline looked at him with an expression of fury on her face, - in the end, Madeline snorted, and turned her head to the side she fell silent.

"Well, at least it is a good start...
But it looks like I'm going to have to untangle this whole situation..." With great reluctance, the man thought with a loud sigh.

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Mark really doesn't want to get into this, the man doesn't know what to do - so he 100% improvises.
Made privately for me.
Thank you very much, it's a beautiful - but scary scene...


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Also please note that my story is in the process of being written, and most of these small fragments that I published are not in chronological order.
(Chronology always was a real pain for me.) So when I finish my plans I will try to put everything in order. If I can...

The story and all characters belong to me  Marksan
The wonderful drawings and most of character desighn are kindly made for me by  sethtriggs For which I am very grateful for his help in portraying all this - because without his vision and pictures I would never have been able to tell this story. He really did a lot for me.

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