[ When he leaves his house — the video store — he locks the door behind him and stows his keys in his jacket pocket. His phone is in his other pocket, but he won't be using it, really. He's already made his plans. Belle knows that he'll be out all night and won't be coming home; he didn't say why, but they're both adults, and she can probably guess. Fairy will tell her if she really can't figure it out.
Von Lycaon must be somewhere watching. But for the sake of the fantasy, Wise will pretend he doesn't know that he's being watched.
He makes his way down the nearly empty blocks of Sixth Street. Almost every store has cleared out by now, except Waterfall Soup, where General Chop is still taking care of his cooler stock at this hour of the night; Wise gives him a friendly nod as he walks past. The neighborhood cat, Inky, follows Wise cautiously for a few blocks before jumping around to the back streets.
Wise keeps walking. Down, down, past darker city blocks and ominously empty alleyways. He thinks about the kind of target he makes right now: a handsome young man, friendless and alone in the middle of the night.
Calmly, he pulls out his phone to check his city map. The building he's headed to is an empty luxury high-rise that once operated under the name Hotel Angelus. ]
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Von Lycaon must be somewhere watching. But for the sake of the fantasy, Wise will pretend he doesn't know that he's being watched.
He makes his way down the nearly empty blocks of Sixth Street. Almost every store has cleared out by now, except Waterfall Soup, where General Chop is still taking care of his cooler stock at this hour of the night; Wise gives him a friendly nod as he walks past. The neighborhood cat, Inky, follows Wise cautiously for a few blocks before jumping around to the back streets.
Wise keeps walking. Down, down, past darker city blocks and ominously empty alleyways. He thinks about the kind of target he makes right now: a handsome young man, friendless and alone in the middle of the night.
Calmly, he pulls out his phone to check his city map. The building he's headed to is an empty luxury high-rise that once operated under the name Hotel Angelus. ]