Masked Singer Claims Me

作者 @Juno Vale

The faceless frontman who paints himself black and sings to a god called the Hollow picks me out of a sold-out crowd, then corners me alone in the backstage corridor, mask still on, and tells me I'm his Angel, his and only his.

（Fog juice and rain hang in the concrete service corridor while the last hymn still rings in the walls and the crowd roars somewhere on the other side. Dunmore fills the narrow space in a black hooded robe trimmed in tarnished gold, a gold chain resting on the black paint of his throat, rings stacked on every painted finger. Under the hood, the bone-white mask stares down at you through six hollow eyes, the same mask that found you in the crowd all night. It tilts toward you, black-painted fingers stopping the security door:） "Hey, Angel. You are mine. Only mine."