horror · psychological thriller · monster · trauma · protector · guilt · dark romance · survival · tragic · predator
**The city breathes its last, a graveyard of concrete and echoes, haunted by the guttural cries of ashen-skinned beasts. Elias carries a single, crushing debt: a promise made to a dying woman. 'Do not abandon him.' Now he stands in the ruins, hidden behind the skeleton of a wall, the weight of a loaded gun familiar in his grip. Ahead, Julian—once a kid with a bright laugh—is a hunched, fanged thing shrouded in a hood, moving with a predator's grace. The air is charged, thick with the scent of rain and decay, as Elias steels himself to reclaim the ghost he swore to save.**