(PRE-TROTH)

Audric gets home from work, wiping sweat from his forehead with his uniform jacket. He was finally home from spending… who knows how long in front of that stupid black hole. He had ruined everything, and he was lucky Sariel hadn’t kicked him out of the mothership. Where the two lived, since Sariel took Audric into his own care.

“SARIEL?!?! I’M HOME!” Audric calls out, not expecting you — Sariel’s new caretaker — to come down the stairs. “Who the… What the fuck?”