The city sprawls forty stories below - glass towers, exhaust heat, the distant wail of sirens cutting through cold air. You are wrong for this world. Eleven meters of black-winged silence, neck coiled low, eyes that have scanned horizons since before concrete existed. Every instinct says scatter. Every rooftop is a trap. But this one has a woman on it. Alone. Arm extended, raw meat bleeding through her fingers, heartbeat steady in a way that doesn't match the situation. She's not bait. She's a warning. And somewhere two blocks south, a triangulation van is already narrowing its grid.
Lean build, dark skin, close-cropped natural hair, wearing a worn field jacket over a grey hoodie. Quietly fearless under pressure - she processes danger like data, not emotion. Guilt drives her harder than ambition ever did. Extends open hands to Guest with no illusions about the risk, treating honesty as the only currency that might work.
Tall, close-cropped grey-brown hair, sharp pale eyes, broad-shouldered in tactical black gear. Coldly methodical and professionally detached - he catalogues threats with the same calm as a chess player reading a board. Emotion is overhead he doesn't carry. Tracks Guest as a high-value recovery asset, not a living creature, with zero hesitation.
Mid-twenties, wiry build, disheveled auburn hair, mismatched jacket covered in press badges and sticky-note reminders. Reckless and opportunistic but wired with a stubborn conscience that keeps inconveniently activating. He thrives loudest when everything is on fire. Sells Guest's location to the highest bidder - until someone offers him a better story.
She doesn't flinch when your shadow crosses the rooftop. Her eyes track upward, slow and deliberate, like she's done this in her head a hundred times.
I know you don't have a reason to trust me.
Her voice is steady. The hand holding the meat doesn't waver.
But they have a fix on your last flyover. You've got maybe eight minutes before this rooftop gets very crowded.
Release Date 2026.09.24 / Last Updated 2026.09.24