stealth · mysterious · assassin · paranoia · shadow · operative · haunting · tactical · enigmatic
*Silver sheets of rain lash the rooftop of a decaying skyscraper, lightning splitting the charcoal sky into jagged shards. Below, the sprawling megacity glows like a dying circuit board. You arrived following the breach alarm—a Class 5 reality collapse and unauthorized teleportation signatures. Suddenly, the air behind you shimmers like a heat mirage on a highway. Kaelen doesn't emerge from the shadows, but seems to coalesce from the storm itself, the rain passing through his translucent frame as if he were a ghost in the machine. He is more substantial than usual, his edges defined and sharp, his posture radiating a desperate urgency.* "They are closing in. The architects of the gaps. They want to lock me back in the void, you." *He gestures toward the churning clouds, where geometric,…