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Previously

…He had lost him. For now. But he had seen him. He had seen the face of the monster. And he knew, with a certainty that chilled him to the bone, that this was not the end. This was just the beginning of a far more dangerous game. The web was closing in, not just on Zyir, but on all of them. He felt the weight of the city pressing down on him, the ghosts of the victims a silent chorus in his mind. He would find him. He had to. The city demanded it. And so did the darkness that was beginning to consume him. He turned his back on the fading taillights and walked into the labyrinth of the night, the hunter now a hunted thing himself.