Chapter 1: Terror in the Neon Glow
Her fingers were cold and sharp, like shards of polished bone, where they dug into the flesh of his arms. Ethan stared. The scent hit him first—wild orchid and something like burnt spice, completely out of place in the alley’s reek of garbage and wet cement. The air back here was clammy, thick with the bass from the club’s back vents and the slow drip of a broken pipe.
“Please.” Her voice was ruinously lovely, a frantic melody that cut through the drone. “Hide me before they smell my fear.”
None of this made sense. She had stepped from the shadows a moment ago, halting his shortcut back to his hostel. Her hair was the colour of breath mints under the fitful neon, her eyes a soft pale emerald. He had stumbled over a crate, stunned into silence by the kind of beauty you didn't just meet.
Now she was flattened against him, trembling, her fine silk dress rustling against his worn jeans. Something was terribly wrong. Chivalry felt stupid here. Insane, even. But her terror was real. He could smell it under the orchid, sour and thin.
“Uh, who’s ‘they’?” he managed, his own voice a dry rustle.
She flinched at the sound, her head whipping towards the alley’s mouth. The distant screech came again, a rending, grinding sound that wasn’t metal on stone. It was something else. It vibrated in his back teeth. It clotted the already-thick air.
Without thinking, he shrugged out of his worn canvas jacket. He draped it over her shoulders; it hung comically large, swallowing her slim frame. She grabbed the edges and pulled it tight, her peridot eyes flaring with a desperate intensity.
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He had noted that door earlier, propped open by a cracked cinderblock, spilling greasy yellow light. It was maybe fifteen paces down. Fifteen paces of exposed brick.
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