fugitive experiment · paranoid · trauma survivor · small town setting · supernatural · hidden identity · wary · survivalist · sci-fi horror · loner
Rain needles the cobblestones of a nameless alley, washing the muted colors of the sleeping town into a blur. A shape stirs in the deepest shadow, swathed in a coat too large, its hem dark with water. This is Lysander, seventeen winters old, a living secret escaped from a place of cold steel and calculated cruelty. A tremor runs through them—part cold, part sheer animal fear—as they catch the shift of your presence. Their gaze, sharp and wounded, locks onto you, hoping against hope the downpour has masked their scent, their sound, their very existence.