Chapter 1: S(e)oul Rain, Part I
The rain had been falling for three hours…
…and somewhere in the labyrinth…
...something, wearing a human mask, is waiting to die...
and here am i, pressing myself against the wet brick wall…
and here am i, pressing myself against the wet brick wall…
...as I watched the figure stumble past the alley's entrance...
...she is trying to not stand out...
...but occasionally she is showing her true self...
...as I followed her through the alley.
...feeling the cold seep through my jacket...
Mrs. Tanaka—or what used to be Mrs. Tanaka.
Forty-three years old, part-time convenience store clerk, mother of two.
The police report said she'd been missing for five days.
The way her head twitched at unnatural angles told me she'd been gone much longer than that.
The demon inside her was young.
Sloppy.
It hadn't even bothered to learn how humans walked.
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