I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
But it all felt distant to Elara now, muffled, as though she and this stranger stood inside a small bubble the rain could not quite reach.
"I don't know you," she said, though it came out less certain than she meant it to.
"No," he said again. "Not yet."
There was something in the way he said it. Not yet. As though it were a fact already decided, a sentence already written somewhere she could not see. As though they had a future together that he alone remembered.
She should have left then. Every instinct told her to turn, to walk quickly back into the crowd, to forget she had ever locked eyes with the Black Villain on a rainy street corner. She had heard the stories. She had heard what happe