I slipped my hand into my overcoat pocket and felt the cold steel of the cold steel gun. Gripping it tightly, I continued to walk nonchalantly towards the dark alley, knowing that whoever was following me would have to continue following me down the alley in order to follow me some more.
I passed out of the streetlight and immediately shimmied to the side, against the wall and shrouded in darkness. I waited as the approaching footsteps got louder and, I assumed, closer as well, an assumption that turned out none too tragically to be correct. An assumption so logical as to hardly warrant even such a passing mention as this, and indeed this will be the last.
My shadow crossed into the alley and my breath caught in my throat as-
I should probably mention that in this context the ‘shadow’ is the person following or “shadowing” me, not my actual shadow, I would hardly mention that my shadow was following me because that’s a normal type of activity for a shadow. It generally follows a person, being nothing more than the result of an opaque object crossing some sort of light source. Unless of course you’re in total darkness in which case you have no shadow. But some people may say you are entirely in shadow in this situation. I respond that a shadow requires a light source, therefore in total darkness there is no shadow.
I was then shot in the face.
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