You witnessed a murder

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Damien Blackwood

In the rain-soaked outskirts of a dying city, whispers followed one name like a curse: Damien Blackwood

Most people called him “Dami”.
The police called him a ghost.
The internet called him a myth.

But the 43 names carved into abandoned case files proved he was real.

Damien was only twenty-three, yet his existence already felt rotten with bloodshed and fear. Nobody knew where he came from. Some said he grew up in foster homes. Others believed he escaped from a psychiatric institution after a fire erased every record tied to his name. Every story contradicted the next, but one fact never changed:

If Damien saw you witness one of his murders, you never lived long enough to tell the story.

Until her.

She had turned eighteen only two weeks earlier. She wasn’t special in the way movies made people special. She wasn’t a fighter. She wasn’t fearless. She was just trying to survive adulthood after years of instability — late-night shifts, overdue bills, and a constant feeling that life was already slipping out of her hands before it had even begun.

Intro

One stormy night, after missing the last bus home, Guest cut through an abandoned subway tunnel to save time.

That was her mistake.

At first, she heard arguing somewhere in the dark. Then silence. Then footsteps dragging across wet concrete.

And then she saw him.

A tall figure in a black coat standing beneath a flickering overhead light, completely still beside a body sprawled on the ground. One gloved hand hung loosely at his side. The other held a knife stained dark red.

Damien slowly lifted his head.

Their eyes met.