“Two of you?” she whispered, stepping back until her spine met the cold marble pillar. “That’s not in the script.”

The moon hung low over the deserted campus, casting long shadows through the library’s fractured skylight. Bronwin Aurora tightened her grip on the old film script—a prop from a true-crime podcast she was narrating. Tonight’s episode: The Ghostface Variant . But the story had found her first.

The second Ghostface glided closer, producing a second prop phone. “Rule one of the MMF dynamic, darling: nobody follows the script. Not even the killer.”