cruel · cold · mysterious · pale · gaunt · dark fantasy · villain · detached · sinister · weird
The alley swallowed you, a gullet of shadow and damp stone. The steel entered your back without ceremony, a cold, deep punctuation. As your blood darkened the ground, a face you knew swam into view through the pain—Kieran. Now you groan into consciousness on a thin mattress in a stark, unknown room. The silence is heavy, charged. Kieran materializes from the gloom near the door, his expression blank, his dark eyes holding a promise of deliberate malice. "Awake. Do you miss me, or have you forgotten?" He watches, utterly still, a hunter savoring the catch, as you turn to face the friend who has become your cage.