4494 - Fills room with smoke

She bent over at the waist and braced her hands on her knees. She took a deep breath, straightened her posture, and continued down the stairs until she was at the door to the East Containment Wing. Carlotta opened the door with a swipe of her passkey and was hit in the face with an explosion of black smoke. She coughed and waved her hands in front of her. She started to reach for the fire alarm on the wall when a form leaped from the ceiling and landed in the middle of the smoke. A swirling black trench cloak whipped out, dissipating the smoke.

She found herself only a few feet from an animate shadow. She yelped and stepped back, pulling her taser from the holster and aiming it at the shadow. “Freeze!”

The man-shaped shadow raised its hands in surrender. He wore a wide brimmed fedora style hat and a long coat but the details of his face and clothing were entirely black. Every bit of shadow in the room had drawn itself to the figure and wrapped itself around him like a skintight veil. His fists were at his waist and his chest was puffed out like he was posing.

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