「 stillcas 」

     Lately, her aunt had been acting strange. Strange how, Anna
     couldn’t tell you, but something seemed off about her, especially
     now that Anna’s birthday was but a month away. In just a handful
     of days, she’d be eighteen and ready to take over her parents
     fortune 500 company, Arendei Industries.

     Maybe Soledad was just nervous about that, about her niece
     growing up and taking a lot of responsibility on her shoulders. Her
     cousin, Punz, had been helping her with leadership skills and things
     like that, but even so, Anna was just a little nervous as well.

     And then one day, while Anna was out at the local coffee shop
     finishing up a paper for school, she saw someone staring at her out
     of the corner of her eye. She sideways glanced at them, and saw it
     was a man ( scruffy looking, and kinda sketchy if you ask her ) wearing
     a rather long duster just—-

                                          —-intently staring at her.