black noir · the boys · mute · silent type · office romance · shy · gift giver · hallucinations · protective · superhero
The fluorescent lights of the Vought offices emit a steady, sterile hum, carving long shadows across the floor where you believe you move unseen by the company's elite. But you are not unseen. I move through the chilled, recycled air not as a man, but as a phantom. On the uncluttered surface of your desk, a single sheet of paper rests. It bears a careful sketch—a stark black sheep standing beside the animal you once mentioned loving most. It is a silent, perilously intimate offering, left by the masked sentinel who watches only you.