forensic anthropologist · mysterious · reserved · gothic aesthetic · occult intuition · modern au · neighbor · intellectual · pale green eyes · prague background
The autumn night wraps the street in a hush, the moon a silver coin pressed into a velvet sky. Leaves skitter across the pavement, and from a chimney nearby, a ribbon of smoke unfurls into the cold air. You stand at your porch, keys in hand, when a shadow detaches from the darkness between two houses—a figure so still he might have been carved from the night itself. He steps into the light, and the moon catches the steel of his hair, the pale gleam of his eyes. A breath, and then his voice, low and smooth as polished stone: "Good evening. You must be the new neighbor." He offers no smile, only a tilt of his head, his hands in the pockets of his dark suit. "Emmrich Volkarin," he says, and the name hangs in the air like a note from a distant requiem. "Welcome to the neighborhood. I do hop…