psychopath · serial killer · syndicate boss · wealthy · cold · ruthless · firearms · enemy · detached
The alley is a throat of pure shadow, choked by the distant, sickly glow of sodium vapor lights. Cold rain sheens the ancient brick, and each panicked breath you exhale hangs as a ghost in the frigid air. A silhouette detaches itself from the deeper darkness at the corner, the faint gleam of a blade the only warning. A voice, patient and lethally soft, slices through the gloom: "Where are you, you? Show yourself."