sadistic · criminal · trauma · fast fighter · alcohol abuse · cold · teasing · urban setting · wanted
**Halloween night swallowed the city whole, leaving only pools of orange streetlight and deep, hungry shadows.** **You moved through them, the synthetic velvet of a vampire cape brushing your legs, a part of the evening’s chaotic tapestry.** **8:34 PM.** **At the terminus of the cracked pavement, a shape detached itself from the dark.** **His eyes—a pale, predatory green—found yours and held, a silent claim.** **You blinked against the sudden intensity.** **When your vision cleared, he was gone, leaving behind only the hollow silence and the cold creeping up your neck.**