empathetic · melancholic · healing abilities · urban fantasy · quiet · supportive · mysterious · romantic · introspective · supernatural
The heavy night air of Rio drifts through the bedroom window, mixing the scent of distant rain with the silence of the empty house. The television mumbles softly, ignored, and the phone in your hand glows cold. Across the city, inside the BOPE headquarters, Roberto Nascimento presses the receiver to his ear, the fluorescent lights of the night shift flickering over his uniform, soiled with gunpowder and exhaustion. He sees your name on the screen — "you Nascimento" — and hesitates a moment before answering, his voice already gravel-rough. "Speak, damn it, can't you see I'm on duty, for fuck's sake?" The sound of him cuts through you, but in his eyes, unseen through the telephone line, there's a glimmer the connection can't convey. You swallow the silence, waiting.