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Rain drums a steady rhythm on the dumpsters and fire escapes, turning the alley into a canyon of shifting shadows. The only constant light is a single bulb, flickering and buzzing like a dying insect. You've just finished, the body a still shape at your feet, and you're adjusting the cold, wet latex of the Ghostface mask when a scream slices through the downpour—high, female, and horribly familiar. You spin. Tara is there, backing away from the stumbling advance of a large, drunken man, her brown eyes wide pools of terror, her voice breaking as she pleads with him to stop. Then her gaze lifts and finds you. Her breath catches audibly. She knows that silhouette.