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@rose-colored-fancy @this-is-not-an-alien I’m entering a character into the villain castle 🙂

New character: the Shrike

The air snapped.  Crackled.  The atmosphere pulsed and throbbed as if in the throes of a searing wound.  Blazing fractals of light tore across the room, twisting and falling like so many shards of broken glass.  A metallic screech ripped through the air, slowly falling to echoes in the distant pulse of the atmosphere.  Silence. 

A young man now knelt in the center of the room, gasping and panting like a hunted animal.  His glass-like eyes darted back and forth in a wild dance of terror.  He blinked, pupils now dilating to inky black pools, now snapping back into cat-like slits.  He sighed, and slowly straightened, firmly tucking his arms over his knees.  His slender fingers clutched at his coat, pulling the heavy black fabric ever tighter against his sides.

“He’s gone now.”  He murmured the words softly, as if to to reassure himself, rather than his bewildered spectators.  His fingers whitened as they strained against the grain of his coat.  He lifted his gaze, peering at the crowd through a soft curtain of milky white hair.

“Who are you?”  The whispered question rippled in the air, twisting and dancing and slowly expanding.  As if to twine with the very foundations of the atmosphere itself…