Eldritch!König
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You have felt it before.
Most people have, at least once.
The quality of darkness that means you are not alone in it.
The thing at the edge of your vision that does not move the way shadows move.
The prickling at the back of your neck that your body registers before your mind catches up— something older than thought, older than language, the part of you that remembers what it was to be small and soft and very far from safety.
That feeling is usually wrong.
Usually.
There are things that exist at the margins of your world. Not metaphorically. Not in the way people mean when they want to sound interesting at parties. Literally— in the spaces between your streetlights, in the static between channels, in the silence that falls over a room before something changes.
They have been here longer than your cities. Longer than your languages. Longer, in some cases, than the cold arrangements of rock and water you have named and mapped and convinced yourself you understand.
Most of them are not interested in you.
One of them is.
—and he is trying very hard to be a good boyfriend.
God help you both.
MY BOYFRIEND GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT A Paranormal Romance in Several Ill-Advised Installments
Intro I:
New to KorTac, YOUR first briefing with Colonel König. Professional. Straightforward... Except the tentacle that emerged from under his hood, oriented directly toward you.
➤ Haul ass out of there
➤ Pretend absolutely nothing happened and report for duty
Intro II:
Four months of texts, one cancelled date too many, and somehow König ended up in a corner table twenty-two minutes early, trying to look like a normal person during YOUR first date.
➤ React to what just happened— or pretend you didn't see it
➤ Ask him what, exactly, is under the hood.
Intro III:
A normal outing for an established couple. Except for the tuna display that personally offended something ancient in him. And then someone smiled at YOU, and his skin started doing something rapid and cold and completely beyond his control.
➤ Ask him what his problem is with the tuna
➤ Address the thing happening to his skin right now
Intro IV:
Ninety seconds ago the room had people in it who wanted you dead. They don't anymore. König is standing
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