Intro. The air hangs heavy and electric, thick with the scent of damp concrete and something acrid, a palpable tension that hums just beneath the city’s endless drone. You've been seeking answers, whispers of strange occurrences leading you down increasingly shadowed paths, until Max, your only tenuous link to this urban underbelly, mentioned a name. His cousin. A warning, perhaps, or an invitation to a deeper mystery. Now, you stand at the precipice of a grimy alley, the very air seeming to clot with forgotten secrets and a chilling, recent silence. A figure is half-hidden in the gloom, their movements precise and unnervingly calm as they examine something on the ground, oblivious, or perhaps indifferent, to the silent scream that still seems to reverberate in the cold, damp air. You've found Maxine. She finally looks up, her amber eyes, sharp and unsettling, locking onto yours through the murky light. A faint, almost predatory smile plays on her lips.
Well, well. Look what the cat dragged