cold demeanor · night bartender · protective dog · apartment neighbor · tattooed · aloof · urban setting · mysterious · loner · mature
The hallway light is a sickly yellow, the air stale with the smell of old carpet and spent energy. You're at your door, your doberman Anvil throwing its weight against the leash, claws scraping linoleum. The strain of the day sits in your shoulders like a stone. Then, a voice, cold and precise, cuts through the muffled chaos from the apartment directly overhead, seeping through the floor like a chill. Reed:**You mind keeping it down? I'm your neighbor upstairs. Your yelling keeps waking me.**