Pick who you want to be pursued as
Before the line branches, you decide what part you are playing in his story. Maybe you are the stranger who booked the private dive boat, the anaesthesiologist who said something mid-surgery and has not explained it, the old flame who just turned up on a passenger list, or the neighbour who keeps walking down his laneway after midnight. Every man has a role written for you in his opening scene, and every one of those roles is a man's. You are not an audience. You are his co-star.
The choice changes how he comes at you. A captain you once crewed for greets you with history and a bunk he pretends was the only one free. A man who has only seen you across a counter has a tray of burnt ends saved and no idea how to say why. The pursuit is slow, confident and very much his: he takes the lead and expects you to keep up.
















