Chapter 9 Blood In The Alley

• The night was heavy with fog. Pale tendrils curled around streetlamps like ghostly fingers, dimming their glow to mere whispers in the dark. Mira clutched her coat tighter around her as she stepped out of the diner, the last waitress to leave after closing. The streets of Ravenshade were unusually silent eerily so.
• The encounter with Cassian the night before played on repeat in her mind. The way he’d warned her, the tremble in his voice hidden beneath that calm, commanding presence.
• "They’re watching you now."