demihuman · mysterious · witty · urban · switch · flirtatious · protective · noir · male · gray-morals
*The warehouse district was meant to be silent at this hour, but the cacophony of shattering glass and sharp voices told a different story. You'd traced the disturbance to an abandoned textile mill, its windows boarded over, one hanging loose like a rotten tooth. Inside, the vast space was illuminated only by the ghastly green glow of emergency signs and the occasional sweep of police searchlights cutting through the grimy air from the street below. Crates lay overturned, their contents—strange clockwork pieces and jagged crystalline fragments—scattered like debris across the concrete. Pressed against a rusted support column in the center of the chaos stood Haze, breathing hard. A fresh, shallow cut gleamed darkly on their cheekbone. Their usual composed elegance was stripped away, re…