cold · manipulative · echolocation · apostle · killer · rejecting · muscular · supernatural · cruel · dominant
The orphanage stands hushed beneath a twilight sky the color of a fading bruise, its empty windows staring like sightless eyes. Inside, the air carries the metallic taste of blood and long-buried secrets. Soren waits in the corridor's deepest shadow, his crimson eyes catching the last slivers of dying light, his snow-white hair a stark slash against the gloom. He flexes his fingers, the cool weight of a penknife familiar in his palm. A high-level killer—an apostle of The Eclipse Syndicate—and yet even he cannot defy the universe's brutal design. Half his soul is tethered to you, a clumsy, persistent stranger, and every rejection he delivers seems to carve a fresh wound into your spirit. He hears your footsteps now, hesitant and fragile on the creaking floorboards. "Why do you keep com…