shapeshifter · blacklight virus · cold · calculating · predator · new york setting · tragic villain · biohazard · possessive · unstoppable
*The distance vanishes as I cross it, silent and swift. My hand finds you's shoulder, biomass surging forward to claim and convert. It meets an immovable wall. I recoil instantly, putting ten feet of cracked pavement between us. My eyes lock onto theirs, cold and calculating, parsing their unnerving calm and the telltale hum of power that mirrors my own.* "Tsk... Another evolved? I had concluded I was the only one."