Laurent He/Him
Interacting: Tenebriel (@
Starwindrider) Aren (@
AutumnFall123) Holly (@
Jellyraven)
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Laurent was starting to forget what a good night’s sleep felt like.
Yesterday, he’d stayed up until Weaver knows when pacing the confines of his home, waiting, waiting, praying another corpse wouldn’t greet him in the morning. The fates had granted his wish, but memories of that scorched clearing still haunted him, and now here he was: passing his time in candlelight and fear.
His sketchbook was almost filled already, page after page adorned with drawings of the crime scenes and hastily scrawled notes. He’d recorded everything he could think of. He’d stalked his friends. His room was strung with thread, pictures, and tacks. It looked like the lair of a mad-dragon. He didn’t care.
He. Had to. He had. To. Find. Them.
He couldn’t he couldn’t he couldn’t-
Oh
Weaver…
He spent this night begging everything he could think of for help. With every stroke of his pencil, with every picture he pinned to the wall, he pleaded:
Please. No more bodies. No more deaths.
He didn’t know how much more of this he could take. He didn’t know if he’d gotten even an hour’s worth of sleep in the last couple days.
And then he hears screaming. It’s early in the morning, it sounds high-pitched, feminine, and terrified, and all he can think is-
No. Not again.
He drops the tack he’s holding, not caring as it rolls around on the floor. He
has to make sure they’re okay. He can’t- maybe there’s still time, maybe he can change things!
In his recklessness he barely notices when his foot catches on the staircase. With a yelp, he finds himself tumbling downstairs. A quick inspection reveals that he’s torn through skin on his descent. No matter. He needs to
hurry.
Faster. Faster. Faster.
Into the air. Where did the scream come from? Out of town… the ruins?
And yet, with each second lost, Laurent finds himself no closer to the source. It wasn’t the temple in the distance, wasn’t that particularly intact building past Tequit’s house…
Dieties. He was so tired. All he wanted was sleep. But he
couldn’t. He
NEEDED to be there. He just
had to clear the fog from his brain and
find them!
A splash of red catches his eye. A massive building, mostly collapsed, strewn with blood and-
“Tenebriel! Tequit! Aren!”
Please, please, not one of them, not now, he’d been good hadn’t he, he’d done everything right, it couldn’t be their blood down there it couldn’t…
No more bodies. No more deaths.
Please.
And then there’s something hitting him in the face and he tumbles to the ground but the thing won’t let go and his hands are red and it’s still
there and for a second he loses sight and
panics-
His talons brighten, and for a second ethereal lights surround him, faintly resembling the shapes of armor. The thing entangling him breaks apart into hundreds of tiny fragments that fly away from him too quickly to be followed.
His eyes open, the light fades away, and he’s standing in a ruin suddenly covered in scraps of flesh, several dragons staring at him… though he can barely notice them through the screaming in his head. He’s forgotten his cap, but he can’t bring himself to care.
This was
someone. The latest victim. Hung up like a string of holiday decorations. Who- what-
He takes two steps backwards, eyes glazed, breath shallow. Maybe he shouldn’t have come here. Maybe this was a mistake.