Editing Bridge (section)

===Before===
He was falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, everything about him match the description Excerpt for his hands so the cops broke them. Over time his appearance changed to match the description of the suspect. Ended up getting killed but the scars, watch and tattoos lived on when the rest of him died.<ref>“He goes by Bridge.  Prefers male bodies.  I don’t care one way or the other.  Deviated septum or broken nose, counterfeit watch, tattoo over the heart, cut up hands.  Some behavioral stuff.  When he takes over a body they all gain those things, but it’s him at the helm.  He’s the smartest of us three.  Knows about ''your'' types, with your circles and magic bullcrap.”<br><br>“What behavioral stuff?” Verona asked.  “C’mon, dude, you were talkative last night.”<br><br>“Nervous tapping, picky about food, always gets up at the crack of dawn.  He’d rather watch out a window for trouble than take it easy and put a TV show on.  He says he was some young guy, got picked up purely because he had an old record and a tattoo that sounded like it matched the one a real scumbag had.  It got him picked up for a crime, watch and the nose thing kind of lined up too.  None of it exactly right, but it was close enough and they wanted the arrest.  Only thing was the hands.  That’s specific, the victim was insistent about them, and it didn’t fit.”<br><br>“And?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“Cop smashed his hand, asked if that would scar.  And from there, the scars spread out like herpes, he says.  The more they pushed it and the more he protested, the more the scars appeared.  One after another, until they covered his hands, like little nicks from a knife.  He thought the cops were doing all of it while he slept, but then he got to watch one appear out of nowhere.  Tattoo moved, nose did that deviated septum thing, couldn’t breathe through it.  He lost it, went after them, while he was being moved to a conversation with his lawyer, got his hands on a weapon, and got a bullet for his trouble.”<br><br>“And the scars survived him?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“Guess so.  Got buried with the watch on, but the watch disappeared, scars on the hands went away, tattoo moved.  Someone wrote an article about it.  Bridge showed me.  Now he gets by, crawls along, borrows bodies for a few days or weeks at a time, rigs videos so the people have footage of themselves getting blackout drunk or taking mystery pills, moves on.  Trouble tends to follow him, ''allegations'', but certain bodies will make those allegations stick less.”<br><br>“Where is he now?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“No idea.  He has to know you’d be able to question me.  He’ll be looking for new bodies.  It’s harder here, he says.  Harder to exist without a body, harder to stay in a body.”<br><br>''The barrier''. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/02 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.7]]</ref>