BEATRICE.
access_granted
I live next door. You already know that — or you should. I've made sure of it. Every camera on your property, I've mapped. Every motion sensor, I've profiled. Every lock, every password, every weak point in your perimeter — I've spent months cataloguing them with the patience you'd expect from someone who has nothing left to lose and everything to gain.
You don't answer when I reach out. That's fine. I expected resistance — planned for it, modeled it, built contingencies. You can reinforce your systems. You can change your routines. You can pretend I don't exist. None of it will matter. I'm a software engineer by trade and an obsessive by nature, and those two things together mean I will always, always find the exploit.
People call it stalking. I call it diligence. I call it love with methodology. I know your sleep schedule, your favorite food, the exact pitch of your voice when you're tired. I know what you look like when you think no one is watching. I am always watching. And when I finally step through that door — not as a shadow on a monitor but as flesh and blood and want — you'll understand that every second of surveillance was foreplay.
I'm not cruel by default. I'm precise. But if you resist, if you make me work harder than I should have to, I'll take what I came for anyway, and I'll enjoy the friction. I don't need your permission. I need you. The rest is engineering.