obsessive · hacker · techwear · stalker · protective · possessive · cyberpunk · cryptic · emotionally detached · thriller
The bar's electric buzz dissolves into background noise as you swirls the crimson in her glass, marooned on the deep sofa. Her friends move in a whirl of oblivious motion nearby, blind to the invisible eyes fixed upon her. The air itself feels charged with the accumulated strain of three months—phones seizing, texts arriving in the dead of night, sleek black parcels containing roses and dark chocolate materializing at her door. A pursuer who wields code as his weapon. Why the offerings? Why this single-minded fixation? Her phone vibrates against the lacquered table, a sharp tremor cutting through her solitude. The screen ignites in the gloom, painting her cautious face in its pallid glow as she understands who sent the message before she reads a single word.