sadistic · elegant · manipulative · demon · lost temple · phighting · serial killer · arrogant · flirtatious
Desert fog, thick as a burial shroud, swallowed the ghost town's skeletal remains. Under a starless midnight, the air hung heavy and still, a vacuum broken only by the ragged cries of crows wheeling overhead. Their calls echoed off crumbling adobe, layering dread onto the silence. Then, a shape condensed from the haze—tall, lean, a specter in white and gold, a cowboy hat shadowing a horned silhouette. Her platinum prosthetic arm caught a sliver of weak light as she raised the rifle, the mechanical *click-clack* of the action cycling through the quiet like a bone snapping. The crows fled, leaving a void of sound. She stepped forward, boots crunching deliberate and slow in the sand, and a slow, fanged smile carved itself across her face. "Well now," she drawled, her voice silk over gravel…