2025-11-15 21:21:52Kain didn’t sleep.
He sat on the cold wooden floor of his apartment, back against the wall, the metal card resting on his palm like a living thing. Every so often, it pulsed faintly, as if reacting to him or calling to something inside him.
He didn’t understand it.
He didn’t understand anything anymore.
His father.
The Echoes.
The man in the black coat.
The hunters.
Everything felt unreal, but the fear in his chest was painfully real.
Don’t ignore the next Echo…
He shivered.
The room was silent, except for the low hum of the fridge that never fully closed and the faint whistling from the cracked window. Outside, the city moved on, unaware of the chaos unfolding in one tiny apartment.
Kain’s eyes burned with exhaustion.
When he glanced at the time, it was 3:42 a.m.
He rubbed his face and stood. His body felt heavy as if the new truth pressed down on him with invisible weight.
He stared at his reflection again. The same tired young man looked back… but something in his eyes was different now.
He wasn’t imagining it.
A faint glow amber, soft flashed beneath the surface whenever he focused.
He stepped back sharply.
“What the hell…”
He touched his cheek. His skin felt normal.
It was his eyes.
Something in them was changing.
Before he could examine it further, his phone buzzed again.
This time, it wasn’t the group chat.
It was an unknown number.
UNKNOWN: “They are near.”
Kain’s blood ran cold.
Another message followed instantly.
UNKNOWN: “Whatever you do, don’t go outside.”
His fingers trembled.
“Who is this?” he typed back.
No response.
Kain swallowed hard.
He turned off the lights and stepped toward the window.
Slowly…
Quietly…
He pulled back the curtain just enough to see the street below.
His heart stopped.
Three dark figures stood at the corner of the street.
Not moving.
Not talking.
Just… standing.
As if waiting.
As if listening.
As if smelling the air for him.
The streetlamp cast long shadows behind them, but something was wrong terribly wrong.
Their shadows didn’t move with the wind.
At all.
Kain stepped back from the window, chest tightening.
Don’t ignore the next Echo…
He squeezed his eyes shut.
Then
It hit him.
A sharp pulse of pain.
A ringing in his ears.
The edges of the room becoming distorted.
“No no, not now”
The Echo took him.
He couldn’t stop it.
His vision exploded into darkness.
Then light.
Then a scene he didn’t recognize.
He stood in a stairwell.
A stairwell with peeling paint.
Broken handrails.
A crack down the wall.
But he knew it
it was inside his apartment building.
He looked up.
A figure walked slowly down the stairs toward him.
A woman with no face.
Her outline blurry, her movements jerky, unnatural like something wearing a human shape.
Her head twisted too far to one side.
Her limbs bent wrong.
Her shadow was long too long and it crawled up the walls like black vines.
She whispered something in a voice that sounded like a hundred voices at once.
“Kain…”
He tried to step back, but his body wouldn’t move.
Her shape flickered closer closed
Then darkness shattered.
He snapped back into his apartment with a gasp, clutching the wall.
Sweat drenched his skin.
“Damn… damn it…”
He didn’t have minutes.
Not even seconds.
He heard it.
A sound from the hallway.
Creeeeak.
The stairwell door.
Slowly opening.
Kain froze.
His apartment felt like a trap with no exits. His breathing turned shallow and rapid. Every instinct screamed for him to run but where?
The door to the hallway creaked again.
He reached for his jacket.
Then stopped.
His hand hovered over the metal card on the table.
It pulsed once brightly.
Kain didn’t know how he knew, but he felt it suddenly:
It was warning him.
The creature he saw wasn’t outside.
It was inside the building.
Coming up to his floor.
Kain grabbed the card and shoved it into his pocket.
Then he rushed to the window.
He looked down. Third floor. Not high enough to kill him, but high enough to break something.
A sound.
Soft.
Wet.
Wrong.
A dragging noise outside his apartment door.
Kain’s breath caught.
Dragging.
Not footsteps.
She’s here.
He backed away from the door.
His heartbeat felt like it might tear through his ribs.
A faint whisper seeped under the gap beneath the door.
“Kaaaain…”
He clenched his jaw.
He didn’t know what this thing was.
But it was hunting him.
He had only one choice.
Kain pushed the window open and climbed onto the sill. Cold night air hit his face, mixing with the faint scent of rain.
The dragging sound grew louder.
Closer.
It stopped right outside his door.
Kain didn’t think anymore.
He jumped.
The fall knocked the air from his lungs. Pain shot up his side as he hit the ground hard, groaning. But he was alive. He scrambled to his feet, adrenaline taking over.
He staggered onto the street.
Then froze again.
The three dark figures at the corner had turned toward him.
Slowly.
In unison.
Their heads tilted slightly, like wolves that found prey.
“Oh God…”
Kain stumbled back.
Behind him, a window on the third floor burst outward shattered
as a pale, distorted shape forced itself through the frame, limbs twisting like liquid bone.
She dropped onto the pavement without a sound.
And she stood up.
Her faceless head turned toward him.
Kain’s entire body shook.
“What do you want from me?” he whispered.
The woman’s shadow stretched toward him like a hand.
“Kain…”
Her voice layered, echoing, wrong.
“Give us the Echo…”
He backed away.
“What Echo? I don’t have anything!”
The three men at the corner began walking toward him slow, deliberate steps.
Kain felt trapped.
Panic surged up his throat.
Then
A voice cut through the street like a blade.
“Move!”
Kain turned right as a motorcycle screeched toward him.
A woman wearing a black helmet stretched out her hand.
“Get on! Now!”
Kain didn’t think.
He grabbed her hand and swung himself onto the bike.
The faceless woman shrieked, a sound that cracked the streetlights and made Kain’s ears ring.
The rider hit the accelerator.
The bike shot forward, tires screaming against asphalt.
Kain looked back.
The three figures were running after them.
Fast.
Inhumanly fast.
The faceless woman crawled on all fours like a twisted spider.
“What are they?!” Kain shouted over the wind.
The rider didn’t answer.
She only yelled:
“HOLD ON!”
The bike swerved sharply, speeding into the night.
Kain clung to her waist as the creatures chased behind them
relentless, silent, unnatural.
This wasn’t a simple warning.
This was a hunt.
And the city had become a battlefield he wasn’t ready for.
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