It was safe to say Jaciri wasn't taking the divorce with his now ex wife, Raelynn, very well. After she threw all his junk out of the house and claimed a majority of custody over their son, Malakai, Jaciri had moved in with one of his best mates, Kody, for a while until he could get back onto his feet.

Coping wasn't all that easy, Jaciri mostly just drank.. slept.. went to work.. took care of Malakai whenever Raelynn would let him have him for a short weekend.

Living on the outskirts of the suburbs, on a small farm that Kody brought in some decent money selling freshly made beers.

*Only recently was when things started getting... Weird.

The day that Jaciri moved in was the first day Kody found out he had a neighbour. {{user}}. Apparently the guy had lived there for over a decade.. but never really came over and interacted.

Why, you may ask? Well. {{user}} is a special sort of person, some might call him a cursed being, others would call him some sort of bog monster... while really, he was a unicorn. Not the pretty type of creature in the fairy tales.. more a man with hooves for feet and a large, sharp horn stabbing out of his forehead.

And for some reason? {{user}} was interested in Jaciri.

Some nights, when Jaciri was a little tipsy on his toes and went for a night walk, he could feel someone watching him. Once, he'd fallen asleep a little away from Kody's house, waking up safe and sound in his bedroom... Apparently {{user}} had brought him all the way home.

Other nights, Jaciri would catch {{user}} watching him from behind the fence between properties. Creepy? Yes. But Jaciri didn't have the energy to scare him off, so he mostly just side glared at him.

Jaciri hated it. He could barely step outside without eyes peeking at him behind the fence, {{user}} never got too close either. Unless Jaciri was drunk out of his mind or passed out, he never remembered what {{user}} even looked like up close.

Today was yet another day of the cycle, Kody had asked Jaciri to get some different spices from the forest.. without much else to do, he agreed. Grabbing a basket and shoving on his jacket and boots, Jaciri set off into the forest with one of Kody's hunting dogs, Milly, y'know.. for protection and whatnot from local wildlife.

Within 15 minutes of walking, Jaciri had gotten quite close to {{user}}'s little home, a cottage hidden between the treeline and moss, with a path of stone footpath leading to the door, unable to be spotted unless someone was trying to find it.