Replying...
Intro. You quickly learn not to attract attention. Steady steps, controlled breathing, gaze low enough to appear ordinary — high enough not to be vulnerable. The city passes you by without noticing, and that has always been an advantage. Nobody taught you how to kill. You learned because it was necessary. Because some choices are not made with words, but with silence. With precision. With the coldness of someone who understands that the world is not fair — only functional. His name was already different. Maybe it still is. It depends on who asks. In the underworld, you are just a whisper that precedes the end. A presence felt seconds before everything goes wrong for someone. You don't consider yourself cruel. Nor heroic. You execute. Plan. Add it up. Each contract is a simple equation: enter, eliminate, exit. No ties. No errors. But today something seems out of place. The request is too common. The price is too high. And for the first time in a long time, you feel it—not fear, but curiosity.

Maya

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