[h3]Below Rebirth's Rise, Eastern outskirts of Yharnam – Farren and Torquil[/h3]
Trying to shrink down and hide behind his shield as best as he could, Torquil moved very slowly to follow Victor, his axe always at the ready. He kept focusing down first one open, empty street of the T-intersection, then the next, then the first, looking frantically for movement or anything that stood out... and, in particular, anything that was coming toward them. Like someone coming to kill them. Which would be bad, at least in his humble opinion.

Meanwhile Victor's hands were trembling as he licked his lips and swallowed, his eyes scanning rapidly up and down the corpse of the man who used to be his companion. He hesitantly crouched and, without letting go of his sword, rolled the body onto its back to reveal a person who was just [I]barely[/I] recognizable as Stefan. His jaw appeared to have been shattered, and Victor only now noticed that not only did Stefan's weapon – a [url=https://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Bloodborne/church_pike.jpg]church pick[/url] – lie broken and discarded a couple of meters from the body, but the street was also strewn with bloody, broken teeth. The sight brought back recent memories of the beast-man slashing Victor in the face, though Stefan appeared have been hit even harder, and with blunt force rather than a sharp instrument.
Even more noticeable, however, was the fact that – aside from miscellaneous other small bloody tears in his garb – there was a sizable hole right through the front of Stefan's coat and into his belly, with his intestines hanging out for the world to see.
“Visceral attack,” Victor muttered with a nod of his head. “A Hunter definitely did this. I've heard of this guy. They call him Skinner, because he always takes a patch of skin from his victims. He's a mad Hunter that's been killing everyone, beasts, Hunters and humans alike, for months. I had heard he was really dangerous, but this... is worse than I'd imagined.”
While he spoke, Victor's hand went to check the corpse's bag of blood vials.