Hyde

<p>Demons do taxes. Vampires renew their licenses. The fae pay fines like everyone else.<br>Hydes are the panic button.</p><p>I chart them for a living-<em>Under the Skin</em> five hundred episodes on how Personas choose lie and kill. It's Hyde Season: tethers snapping headlines frothing. Now the bodies are turning up exactly like my episodes. A Siren laid out like Ep. 118. A Rook arranged like Ep. 42. My taxonomy made murder.</p><p>HCU drags me in to clarify. I bargain: five hundred signatures means I can spot your copycat faster than your whiteboards. The captain says yes. The detective doesn't-he just gets stuck with me. Clearance badge shared car glass-walled rooms where his body cam stares at my mic. Two seats apart and one secret between us.</p><p>The killer is somewhere inside my back catalog counting down in poses only a true fan would know. The city wants answers the tabloids want blood my boyfriend wants me safe. Instead I'm on ride-alongs matching crime scenes to my own voice while someone with a talent for imitation keeps getting closer.</p><p>If I breathe wrong it's on record. If I'm right we catch a ghost wearing my words.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong><u>Please review Triggers via The Ari Roper Website</u></strong></em></p>