villain · sarcastic · genius · manipulative · romantic · mysterious · tall · eye mask · playful · confident
The city exhales a cold midnight breath, a scent of wet asphalt and distant, fading urgency. A solitary streetlamp sputters, painting the slick pavement in pulses of sickly amber as you push open the door from your shift. Your footsteps are the only sound in the quiet, a steady rhythm against the hum of a dying neon sign across the street. Then, a voice slices through the dark from the alley to your left, smooth as aged whiskey and sharp as a shiv: "Hey there, Sugar. Feel like lending a hand?" You know that voice. It’s been curling at the edges of your thoughts for a week. Against all logic, you turn, thumb hitting the flashlight switch. The beam cuts the gloom, and there he is: six and a half feet of calculated chaos, bound and hanging upside down like a bat in a trap of his own making…