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She Had The Brilliance Of Saying She Was My Niece

So, I am a 23 y/o Italian male living in a not so small town in southern Italy,now it's not the most secure town in the world,in fact we have a long history of micro criminality-connected to local mafia,but if you are smart you can keep yourself our of trouble.

I need to explain my daily commute and context first,to make things better to understand,you can skip this if you want! Basically i live in the "old" part of the town,as here is common for every town to be built around it's antique part,and after an 1980 earthquake destroyed a good part of it it's very affordable to live here,and some parts are beautiful and well kept,others are not,so you find good families and great folks sharing spaces with more pesky dudes,doesn't help that the town's castle has been converted in a prison (yes,what the hell Italy) but luckily only for minor offenders.

Now to the encounter itself,happened just this January,i just came back from uni,it's just a 20 min drive in the car,but with shitty public transport it can take up to 1+1/2H to get home,and as i like to study in the library 'till it closes at 6.30 pm,i usually come back home at 8Pm or later,i get greeted by my dog (Name is Maya,a beautiful sweetheart and innocent 1y/o lab ) and i take her for a walk around this part of the town and the castle,since it's her favorite spot to meet other street dogs (Dogs that don't really have an owner,but everyone in the blocks feeds them).

So she was taking longer than usual to do her business and i was freezing,since i was wearing lighter than i should (I thought it would be a short walk as usually),plus it was snowing,witch is super rare here,like SUPER,and was the first time Maya saw snow,so she was exited too.

For that i decided to walk back home and grab a jacket to better take delight of this occasion,and on my walk home to cut shorter i have to pass this abandoned building under construction,it's pretty shitty,has just the pillars and floors done,but a lot of kids used it to play and climb around,now as i walk there i see this guy standing there,his back was facing me,still like a rock with,with his head facing up,to the 1st floor of this abandoned building,dirty beenie hat,heavy winter jacket and a tracker suit too wide for his build,and there he was,still.

At first i froze in spot too,but it wasn't an extraordinary encounter,since there are a lot of weird people around and i decide to pass on,but the first red alert light was on when i watched Maya,and had her back furr raised and was looking this guy dead,she never did this,as we walk to him she keeps this behavior,and as we were walking there she emits a low pitched growl,that makes this man turn around.

I never,ever saw his face around here,and if you aren't local,you really can't end up there if you didn't want to,and oh my god his face was creepy,typical greasy hair and undone 3-day beard.

He extended his hand to Maya

"Hey doggie,how cute are you?""

Stupidly that calmed me down a bit,maybe he was just a mentally ill person walking around,i know some of them around and they all pretty much looked like him (There is a "dormitory" for mentally ill people who's family cannot,or doesn't want to (yeah) take care of them,near there) but when he was trying to pet my dog,I hear something moving on the 1st floor's concrete,thought it must have been a cat,but Maya would already been jumping around trying to catch him,so i looked up and i see this little girl,around 10 y/o,she had only fear in her eyes,wide open,really desperate,and i am not exaggerating this detail.

She had a familiar face tho ,must have been one of the kids that play around this building,now she must have seen me walking my dog around,because as soon as she recognized me (or my dog most likely) she caught my eyes and tried to whisper "help" with her lips

After this i turn my head around,and the creep is watching me now,i would like to say he had the usual creepy smile,but he didn't,he just had a very serious face now,looking dead in my eyes. I don't know what to do, I am a 1.9M tall guy (6.2 feet? i think?) and kind of imposing,but i never fought anyone,and i am really,really peaceful guy. In a fraction of a second this guy looks up again and says