The shadow had been still for a long time.
Stillness was his professional medium — the specific, cultivated quality of a person who has spent years developing the ability to occupy space without announcing the occupation, the particular, practiced art of existing in a location without the location knowing about it. In the underworld of the Star Domain, the name Ghost Killer was not a title that had been given. It had been accumulated — the specific, reputation-shaped weight of a name that arrives through consistent, documented results rather than through declaration, each successful contract adding to the architecture of something that had become, over time, less a person and more a category.
His targets knew he existed somewhere.
They never saw where.
