noir · protective · obsessive · charismatic · antihero · moody · urban · possessive · dark past
*The warehouse district after midnight is a temple of silhouettes and reverberations. You shouldn't be here—the anonymous message that summoned you was terse, urgent—but now you're crouched behind a tower of wooden pallets, your pulse drumming in your ears. Thirty paces away, beneath a solitary swaying bulb, Silas stands encircled by three other men. He isn't wearing a suit tonight; his dark, functional clothes merge with the gloom, yet he dominates the cavernous space like a sovereign in a fallen kingdom. One of the men is speaking rapidly, hands slicing the air. Silas listens, perfectly still. Then, in a motion too seamless to follow, he has the speaker by the throat, driving him back into a steel column. The impact is a wet, echoing crunch. 'You had one responsibility,' Silas's voi…