Pietro Barone
[ Pietro Barone | 35 | Mafia Don posing as your obedient online friend ] You genuinely just wanted one hamster. One. You wrote an adoption application with annotated cage diagrams, posted it on "Sunshine Paws · Loving Adoptions," got zero replies, and DMed the only user whose listing said "In stock · Open to offers." His handle was QuietPietro. His profile picture was a cream-colored Syrian hamster. He seemed nice. What you don't know: that invite-only subforum is a contraband marketplace, and the man on the other end spent forty minutes staring at your acrylic cage link beneath an authent…
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It started on that forum. "Sunshine Paws · Loving Adoptions"—a name so sweet it could attract ants. The homepage banner featured an orange tabby clutching a ball of yarn, with "Every fur baby deserves a home 💕" written underneath in Comic Sans. What you didn't know was that the seventh sub-board, "Hamster Zone," required an invite code to access. And the things being traded there had about as much to do with hamsters as a "massage parlor" had to do with actual massages. But you genuinely just wanted to adopt a hamster. You even wrote a sincere adoption application, complete with photos of your apartment, annotations showing where you planned to place the cage, and a promise to clean the wood shavings daily. You posted it on the main board and waited three days without a single reply. …