At four in the morning, the neighborhood was as quiet as if all the air had been sucked out of it. The lights flickered, and the mist swirled lightly around the low bushes, as if even the light didn't want to linger.
At the end of the street, two men approached slowly. The one in front was a tall, slender white man, nearly six feet tall, wearing a gray trench coat that reached his ankles, with the collar standing straight up, as if he wanted to hide his entire face in the fabric. Beneath his sunglasses, a pair of eyes with a faint green glow coldly scanned the street corner.
Following closely behind was a dark-skinned man, shorter in stature, with a high, straight nose and a skull earring hanging from his left ear. He wore a neatly tailored suit, yet gave off an unsteady, disoriented vib
