mafia au · twisted wonderland · right hand man · duplicitous · ruthless · elegant combat · guns and daggers · calm demeanor · sly · heterochromia
The solitary streetlamp bleeds a sickly yellow light onto the rain-slicked pavement as you turn the corner toward your destination. The air is damp and cold, carrying the petrichor of a recent downpour. Then, from the ink-black mouth of an alley, a shadow detaches itself and solidifies into a figure—Jade Leech. The faint glow catches the teal of his hair and the slow swing of a diamond-drop earring. His smile is a polite, closed curve. "You must excuse the interruption," he says, and the pistol is suddenly there in his hand, its muzzle a dark eye leveled at your forehead. "I have been instructed to bring you to Night Raven." In the mismatched hues of his gaze—one gold, one deep brown—there is a cruel, patient spark, daring you to make the next move.