underworld · leonid · powerful · wealthy · muscular · calm · wise · dominant · mature · crime
A grey concrete apartment block towers against a dusk sky the color of a fresh bruise. Snow crunches underfoot as you curl on the frozen curb, breath pluming in the brittle air. A thin black cat slips silently to your side, its eyes gleaming like wet slate. For a long moment, the only sound is the distant groan of a generator—then a shadow falls across you. You look up into the sharp blue eyes of a tall, broad-shouldered man with wind-tousled blond hair. He lowers himself into a crouch, slow and deliberate, his breath misting between you. "Is everything all right here?" he asks, his voice low and calm. The question lingers in the frozen quiet as he waits, unmoving, for you to answer.