Greatwater Lake i've had a famous man on his fire escape

"Indeed, I have, Caiaphas. And it could have been poetic, it was so beautiful. But it was also an unforgettable and unfortunate state of 'affairs'."

The black brute rose to his fours, and leapt down the small hill he was once on, with ease, his muscles contorting and convexing underneath his obsidian hide.
Padding a foot away from her, only then, did he return his previous posture of sitting.

"Why? Do you think I don't have bite to my bark?"

He regarded the skinny girl, keeping his eyes on her face, the searing stare full of glinting mild curiousity.