MAYOr leornard greaves

Role: Mayor of Silver City
Status: Alive, but morally dead
Function in Narrative: Political puppet of Sabrina and the Death Circle. Publicly a leader, privately a terrified servant of the darkness infecting his city.

Leonard Greaves wasn’t always a coward—but Silver City has a way of hollowing people out. A seasoned politician with a sharp suit and a sharper tongue, Mayor Greaves was once known for his law-and-order stance. But after his predecessor “disappeared,” Leonard learned the true cost of power in Silver City.

Now, he’s little more than a talking head propped up by Sabrina’s whispers and the Death Circle’s threats. He signs off on the cover-ups, silences journalists, and prays that whatever walks behind the Black Doors doesn’t turn its gaze to him.

He fears Sabrina more than he fears hell.

• Age: Mid 50s
   
• Height: 5’11”
   
• Build: Formerly fit, now softened by stress and alcohol
   
• Hair: Salt-and-pepper, neatly combed, always hiding sweat
   
• Eyes: Green, bloodshot, darting—like he’s always looking for exits
   
• Style: Always seen in expensive suits—dark, understated, hiding the blood on his hands
   
• Tell: Fingers tremble slightly when holding pens or glasses. Keeps a handkerchief nearby to wipe sweat.
   

• Cowardly but cunning — Knows how to survive by sacrificing others
   
• Paranoid — Believes his own phone and staff are compromised (he’s right)
   
• Politically savvy — Can spin horror into budget reports and PR wins
   
• Morally bankrupt — Rationalizes every betrayal with “it’s for the city”
   

• Rose to power after the former mayor vanished under mysterious circumstances
   
• Initially tried to resist the influence of Sabrina and the cult
   
• After receiving three warnings—
   
  1. A note slipped under his door: “We see you.”
      
  2. A black box with a dead bird and human teeth inside
      
  3. Eli appeared in his office and whispered, “You're next.”
      

• Now fully complicit, but haunted
   

• Greaves represents the rotting institution of government
   
• A man who chose survival over justice
   
• Foreshadows how systems fail when evil becomes the status quo
   

• Chapter 17: Signs off on a cleanup order at the Hollow Bottle, knowing the bodies were never found
   
• Chapter 22: Confronted by the new police chief—warns him not to push Sabrina
   
• Final Chapters: Seen crying in his office as lights flicker and Eli reappears, staring at him from behind a glass window that shouldn’t reflect