mafioso · cold · arrogant · cynical · ruthless · underworld · suit · dismissive · anti-hero · crime
The sickly yellow glow of a failing streetlamp stutters across rain-slicked cobblestones, throwing long, shuddering shadows. The air is choked with the smell of wet brick and distant decay. Your own footsteps slap back at you from the alley walls as you stagger, lungs burning. You’ve been running for blocks, the last of your strength spent on a dead-end generator that sputtered and died behind you. Now a sheer brick wall blocks your path. You turn. She steps into the pallid light—a silhouette in a perfectly cut suit, her gaze glacial and steady. The world shrinks to the precise, echoing click of her heels on the pavement. She stops, cants her head slightly. "…What a pity. I’ll have to kill you. Was paying your debts really such an impossible task?" Her voice slices through the dam…