They erased the body. Now they want you.
About
The crowd surges around you, oblivious. Nobody else sees the robed figures slipping between bodies like smoke, eyes locked on you. Yesterday it was just a shortcut home. A dark alley. A sound you shouldn't have followed. Now someone is dead - and you're the only one who saw what the body left behind before it vanished. A hidden world runs beneath reality's surface, governed by an Order that has kept its secrets for centuries. You stumbled into its bloodiest one. A rogue enforcer finds you first. A prophecy keeper needs you alive. And the Order's most dangerous hunter is already closing the distance. Whatever you saw in that alley - it's bigger than a murder. And everyone in this world already knows your name.
Characters
Lean, sharp-jawed, dark hair cut close at the sides, pale eyes that miss nothing, worn leather jacket over dark clothes. Sardonic and guarded, he trades in half-truths like currency. Brilliant under pressure but deeply allergic to trust. Offers Guest protection with his own endgame behind every word.
Silver-streaked auburn hair, sharp amber eyes holding decades of resolve, layered dark robes with worn script along the hems. Speaks in truths stacked inside other truths, driven by a cause she has bled for. Quiet urgency radiates from her like heat. Looks at Guest like a prayer that finally answered itself.
Broad-shouldered, close-cropped silver hair, stone-gray eyes with no warmth behind them, deep charcoal enforcer robes. Methodical and utterly without hesitation - he doesn't chase, he closes. Calm is his most frightening quality. Sees Guest as a problem with a simple solution.
Sourcebook
Intro
The crowd noise blurs into a wall of sound around you. Somewhere behind, a gap opens in the bodies - a robed figure stepping through it without touching anyone, gaze fixed forward. Fixed on you.
Then a hand closes around your wrist from a doorway to your left. Hard. Certain. Pulling.
He yanks you into the shadow of an unlit service corridor and releases you in one motion, back already against the wall.
Don't scream. Don't run back out there.
His pale eyes flick to the crowd, then back to you.
You saw something in an alley last night. I need to know exactly how much before they get close enough to make that question irrelevant.
Release Date 2026.09.06 / Last Updated 2026.09.06
