Ranky returned to the Neon Bazaar not to live, but to burn the past into the floorboards. After drowning his old life in a vat of broth and leading a phalanx of hollow-eyed ghosts, he finally found the silence he sought in the barrel of a security rifle. He died as Stanky, a manic king of the intake, amidst the ruins of a city that never wanted him back.