Familiar Scars

THE IDENTIFICATION

~RAFAEL POV~

I was standing on the terrace when my phone buzzed.

The city lights started to blend together, with all those orange streetlamps bleeding into a blurry glow.

I had been staring at Alfama for so long my eyes hurt, but I couldn't look away. She was down there somewhere.

Breathing, hiding, thinking she was safe.

The buzz came again. Insistent.

I pulled the phone from m