No One Runs Faster (Open)

[Lucien DeChain]

It was that dream again. Third time this week.

Lucien walked forward, knife dripping crimson blood. A soldier lay on the ground, and as Lucien approached him, the man's eyes widened in terror. He cried, and whimpered. But Lucien just felt a smile overtake his face as he plunged the knife into the fearful man's chest.

He stood up and looked around. All around him, dead bodies lay strewn about, as far as he could see. All of them killed by his knife. And there was no one left living but him...

Lucien woke up with a yelp. Cold sweat dripped from his slim form, and he shivered as he crumpled into himself, haunted by his own thoughts. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he got out of bed, confident that he wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of the night.

Once he was up, showered and dressed, he was out into the night. He needed a good, long walk.

*

Left alone to his own thoughts, he felt even more trapped in, though he was out in the open. It was a strange feeling, being so closed in, trying to escape yourself. So, he walked, and not in any particular direction.

The dream was recurring more often.

[Orion]

"Yo, Lucien."

A voice spoke from atop a car. Sitting on there would be glowboy extraordinaire. On his back was a massive backpack, bulging in a few different areas oddly. With two knife handles at the bottom, sheathed so as to be easily pulled into a quick iai-blow with a reverse-grip. In his right-hand was his ever trusty dual-halberd, wrapped in cloth. In his left was a bottle of sake, half-empty. He stared down at the man Rina had introduced him to, once, some time ago.

"You alright? You seem kinda lost."

[Lucien DeChain]

Lucien never forgot a face. And, the fact that the one he saw was glowing, well, it didn't subtract from the recognition. As he looked on to the well-armed man with a half-full bottle in his hand, he smiled slightly, the grin not reaching his tired eyes.

"Orion. It's nice to see you. I'm fine, just taking a walk. How have you been?" He asked, walking towards the glowy man.

Yep, just taking a walk, at 4 in the morning, for no reason... Lucien also realized that Orion could probably sense how he's feeling anyways.