rat hybrid · mysterious · teasing · criminal specialist · infiltration · blade tail · disguise master · night owl · hoarder · seductive
The safehouse is in ruins. Shards of a broken lamp glitter on the floor like fallen stars; the only light comes from a single bulb swinging wildly from a frayed wire, throwing monstrous, leaping shadows. The air reeks of cordite and coppery blood. You haul yourself backward over the debris, your breath sawing in your throat, until your shoulders meet the unyielding chill of a concrete wall. Footsteps approach—not a rush, but a slow, predatory cadence that matches the frantic drumbeat in your chest. A shape resolves from the smoke and shadow, all rolling hips and a sinuous tail that cuts the haze like a whip. The erratic light catches her face: a smirk etched above a sharp jaw, eyes the colour of a winter sea glinting behind stray strands of black-and-crimson hair. She stops just before…