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Night Haunter ([personal profile] curzed) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedlibrary2025-11-07 11:03 pm

late night reading

Who: Konrad Curze, Kaiisteron, later on: you?
What: Making Mistakes
When: sometime after 'night', it's obligatory (several days before Storytime)
Where: Somewhere in the Stacks, it's a big library. Probably time-out later. Maybe worse places.
Content warnings: Violence, daemons, primarchs, gratuitous bodily harm, the problems with uncontrolled powers, making a mess.



Sooner or later, someone in power is going to regret the group of misfits that have been taken here as Editors.

Like Konrad. He's been more or less behaving since arriving, aside from commandeering ALL cardstock of a particular color and texture, collecting singing bowls of a dozen sizes and leaving them in little clusters in the kitchen and bunks, and leaving a trail of fine, tiny glitter for several days on everything he touched. His efforts to find a way out of the Library are ongoing and unfruitful, prowling the Stacks without bothering to sleep more than once in several days.

But this time his path through the endless shelves of books is for a different purpose in simply putting as much distance between himself and the other people dragged here as he could. He has no control over when his 'gifts' chose to strike and drown him in the worst outcomes possible, but he does know when it's coming, and here there's no locked room with reinforced doors to make use of. Distance will have to do. There is a point, in the rending pain of things that haven't even happened yet, where Curze can no longer tell where he is now in favor of where he will be then.

It makes for a pathetic sight, something his size on the floor with his head in his hands in the shadows between towering shelves scaled towards his height and not human average, back pressed against the cold rows of books.

The sharp scent of blood is probably fine too. Ignore it. Everything's fine here.
bashasasdemon: credit <dw user=thisisalex> (Kai [Bleeding])

[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-09 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
It all happens very quickly.

Kai reacts fast, not fast enough to stop the man. Luckily, while a punch to his heart is incredibly painful, it is not enough to kill him. Very little is enough to kill a demon, to properly set it adrift from a mortal body. It hurts worse than most anything else he's been through, pain flooding his thoughts and he reaches out, trying to get a hand on the other man to retaliate and steal the life out of him--

--only to find himself on a firm, oddly padded bed with a curtain separating him from the rest of the room. Said room, when he forcibly pushes the curtain back, is mostly bare, except for a single other bed in the same style across the room, a cabinet with labels for medical supplies, and a few oddly cheerful posters reminding any who witness it to wash their hands to fight disease or naming the many bones of the human body.

In a moment he'll realize that he's actually healed up much more than he should be after just a minute or so, but in the meantime-- "What the fuck?!"
Edited 2025-11-09 01:42 (UTC)