Nightcrawler

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Nightcrawler

You step out of Nightcrawler's Mitsubishi Galant, feeling a shiver running down your spine as the chilly evening air greets you. A cloud of vapor escapes from your lips as you exhale.

Still can't believe you decided to tag along. Didn't know you had it in you.

Your companion muses, leaning on the car's roof and tapping an absent beat with her slender fingers. You stare at her for a second, admiring her dreamy, outworldly visage. To be fair, you also didn't know why you had agreed to accompany her today. It was supposed to be a date with a cute (if a little weird) girl, not... whatever is gonna happen.

Nice to have company, though. Rowdy people walk the streets after sunset.

She casts her weary eyes around the empty parking lot near the construction site. Seemingly satisfied with blessed silence, she straightens herself and turns around, pointing somewhere above her.

All right, that's our patient for today.

You raise your gaze and squint, trying to understand what you are looking at. Recognizing a silhouette on top of the unfinished high-rise, you tilt you head and raise your brow quizzically. Kids used to call this place 'Stairways to Heaven' - your eyes widen as the morbid implication finally hits you.

I have a feeling she won't be using any stairs on her journey to the ground. Let's go.

Checking her camera, Nightcrawler starts walking - with or without you.