After having the relaxing shower, Rana had finally forgot about his weird dream, and went back to the kitchen to eat. He cut up some fruits and ate them with cereals and some yogurt. Then he went to get ready for work, he felt like dressing a bit fancier today, so he took his time choosing clothes in his bedroom. All ready he grabbed his backpack and headed of for the tramway.

He had taken the habit to read webnovels on his phone, whenever he had nothing else to do. So he took out his phone, checked that he did not have any new messages and then started to read.

But something kept distracting him from reading, and somehow he could not figure out what it was. First he looked around, but he there was nothing strange in the tram, no strange noises either. He felt that this was really unnerving, like that feeling when you get the impression of being watched and you can’t find who or what is observing you. Then he noticed that was distracting him was actually a smell. It was the smell of perfume intermixed with something else. Something like the smell of fear maybe, and there was still something else, but he really could not pinpoint it. Rana looked around, ‘Where is this smell coming from?’

It seemed to come from a woman sitting 3 rows away, further in the front of the vehicle. ‘Wow! What is going on here? How could I notice a smell from that distance and also in such an intensity and detail?’ Rana thought. Curious Rana went to sit opposite to her. As she felt that she was being looked at, she looked left and right, like a child being scared of having been found out, at the same time both the smell what seemed to be fear to him and the other smell seemed to have increased. Rana found here extremely cute and could not help asking her if everything was alright. She replied “Ye… Yes” stuttering and looking away from him.

Rana was still curious but his stop was coming up, and he would be late for work if he missed. So he said goodbye, got up and jumped of the tram right before it left.

As he passed the door, having now noticed his enhanced sense of smell, he was received by the terrible bouquet of the city. The smell of cars with their exhaust fumes and rubber wheels, the smell of the people and their perfumes, the smell of piss and vomit coming from a side alley… Rana was completely overwhelmed by all the smells, so he hurried to the building he worked in.

Entering the office he was welcomed by the strong smell of coffee coming from every corner of the place. He hurried on, to his desk, turned on the computer and sat down. He tried to focus on his work, but he was completely unable to focus always distracted by different smells floating his way. Not being able to concentrate he looked around the office, strangely he was able to smell every single person in the room, focusing on the direction of a person, he would be able to smell different smells that had a pattern. They seemed to be emotions but Rana could not really distinguish or recognise them yet, the only exception being fear.

He went through his co-workers, one of them seemed to stand out, it was a woman called Becky. She stood out because he could smell an extremely strong fear. Rana observed her, as usual she was dressed in a most revealing get up. Her mini skirt was barely covering her private parts and the crop top she was wearing did not hide the bottom part of her breast. With her long blond hair, and her overdone make-up she was considered as the hottest women around by most.

Rana got curious as to why Becky was so scared. He got up and walked straight up to her. Becky noticed him walk over towards her, she looked surprised. Well it wasn’t really a wonder that she was surprised about him walking over, he barely ever talked to her unless he had to since he did not fancy this kind of woman that overly sexualised. What made it even worse was that while she did that she tried to present the image of an innocent young girl.

“Hey, you are scared aren’t you, Becky?” he asked her in an overbearing manner. She looked at him as if she did not understand what he meant, perfectly hiding her fear. But the increasing smell of fear could not escape is acute nose, he felt his heart pumping thrilled by this feeling similar to what one felt on the hunt.

“We both know you are and why, Becky”, he said bluffing since of course he had actually not idea of what was going on. Becky’s faced slowly crumbled seeing his confidence. She looked around as if to check, if someone had noticed them talking. Then she grabbed him out of the office to a quiet resting area that was poorly frequented. She looked at him with begging eyes “Please don’t tell anyone about me leaking information! I can’t afford to lose this job Rana, I am begging you, Please!”.

Rana looked at her in shook as she was falling apart in front of him. Not knowing how to react he just stood there looking at her blankly. The woman not seeing any reaction from him started to panic more and more. She looked like she was going to start crying saying “Please Rana, if you keep quiet I’ll do anything for you! You can even have my body!”, saying that she took his hand pulling him towards her.

Rana was not a monk, he was indeed tempted slightly for a second, but she really was not his type and as she put his hand between her legs under her skirt, feeling her naked hill without the slightest hair he every last shred of hesitation was destroyed.

Completely revulsed and turned off, as it the blankness reminded him of the alikeness to a child not having gone through puberty yet. He shook her of him and as he turned around without a second glance at the women going to her knees, he said coldly “I am sorry, I am not interested in someone like you”. Still feeling pity for the poor thing, he added “but I won’t tell on you… for now.” as he left the room.

Arriving back at his disk, he fell into his chair. His brain finally started processing what had just happened. ‘Bloody hell!? What was that?’, passed through his mind followed by a certain worry ‘If the other guys get wind of what happened they are going to kill me!’

He slowly breathed in and out, calming himself down a bit. Then He started to think about this newly acquired skill of his. ‘Where did this fantastic sense of smell come from? This is awesome, like a superpower! But what happened with Becky was just too weird.’