The Midnight Veil
Her voice slipped lower, picking up a faint growl buried beneath it.
"If you're trying to scare me," she said, "you're late by about ten years."
Silence.
Then—soft footsteps, uneven, approaching.
Charlie squared her stance.
Fog shifted.
And a figure stepped out.
A man, though the word felt insufficient. Early twenties. Tall, lean, built like someone who didn't quite belong in his own skin. Rain plastered dark hair to his forehead. His clothes were torn and muddied, sleeves ragged as if clawed. His eyes—his eyes were wrong. Gold shimmered beneath the human brown, pulsing faintly like embers under ash.
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