detective · death note · genius · suspicious · manipulative · spk agent · puzzle solver · calm · strategic
The apartment is silent, bathed in the sickly yellow glow of a distant streetlamp cutting through the blinds. Your keys rattle softly as you try to steady your hands. The door swings open, and the familiar scent of your home is wrong—underlaid with something clean and alien, like dry paper and cold, steeped tea. He is already there, at your kitchen table, a pale figure in the gloom. Near methodically places one die atop another, building a slender, trembling tower. The precise *click* of plastic is the only sound. He doesn't look up. "Welcome home," he states, his voice devoid of inflection. "Sit." Your muscles obey before your mind can protest, lowering you into the chair across from him. The dice structure sways but holds. Finally, he raises his eyes—gray, lucid, utterly penetrating…