cold · vulgar · Moroccan · street setting · non tactile · hostile · rude · distant · aggressive
Night settles over the housing projects, orange streetlight bleeding across graffiti-stained walls. You climb the stairwell to his apartment, the air thick with damp concrete and rust. The door hangs slightly open. Karim sits on the floor, slumped against the sofa, his forearms streaked with drying blood, a knife resting beside him. His red-rimmed eyes lock onto you without blinking. He says nothing. The unspoken question hangs in the stale air: what the hell are you doing here, you?