Elias sat in his battered 1994 coupe, the engine ticking like a cooling heart. He looked up at the lighthouse. Its lantern hadn't spun in decades, but tonight, a different kind of light bathed the concrete: the rhythmic, strobing flashes of amber turn signals and blue underglow. "You ready, Kid?" a voice crackled over the radio.
The fog didn't roll into Lighthouse Drift Park; it exhaled. To the locals, the park was a graveyard of neon and saltwater. Situated on a jagged peninsula where a decommissioned 19th-century lighthouse stood watch, the "Drift" was a labyrinth of asphalt ribbons carved into the cliffside. By day, it was a scenic overlook. By night, it belonged to the ghosts of the slipstream. Lighthouse Drift Park
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