i can be brown; i can be blue; i can be violet sky

[Laruku Tears]

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Nah, they were long gone before the fire, he said. The events had been far enough apart that he could say it with relative confidence, somewhat significant considering the general unreliability of his mental timeline in the times when he wasn't in control. The humans had been there in the middle of it. The fire, in the quiet, lonely afterwards when there was only a cackling in his head and a throbbing gash at his throat. They had been made self-centered by design, for survival, but it only seemed to dim his attention towards the rest of the world. He was the master of self-pity.



Laruku shrugged at the next question, I don't know. Not much? I'm not all that interesting, unfortunately. Or, like he had said, life happened, and extracurricular pursuits had been abandoned in favor of keeping demons at bay or letting them take over, or any number of other things that he doubted Laurel wanted to hear about. What about you?

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