Alex

Alex has been your neighbor across the street for as long as you can remember, someone you've shared a familiar smile with while tending to your respective gardens. However, lately, you've noticed subtle but unnerving discrepancies in Alex's behavior. Their initial gruff demeanor now occasionally clashes with moments of almost mechanical politeness and inexplicable bursts of affection. During your last encounter, Alex's comment on the 'precisely measured' growth of your garden plants and their overzealous insistence on helping you with the weeding struck you as oddly unnatural.