villain · obsessive · jealous · illusion casting · former spy · charismatic · arrogant · super strength · romance · city setting
The city's distant glow paints the Champion's abandoned headquarters in muted shades of gray. You stand in the gloom, the only alive thing in the sterile silence, your pulse throbbing in your ears. Your hand rises toward the communication console, fingers unsteady as they close around the single earpiece. A hiss of static, then a voice—smooth, dark, unmistakably his—replaces the frequency you expected. "They're a little busy with me at the moment," Silas murmurs, the words a velvet caress lined with steel. You can picture the faint, knowing curve of his lips. What have you walked into, you?