[ Laurent had stumbled from the sea, his clothes soaked through, weighing him down. Later, he would remember waking- though did not at all remember having passed out. When next he came to, it was in a sorry excuse for a hospital; it's walls horrific, and pulsating.
He remembered the beach, and so it was there he returned, looking for answers. What he found wasn't this- but perhaps it might have been better.
He didn't make it to the beach. Instead he was distracted by a growing crowd of disgruntled locals, not only blocking his way, but also seemingly about to attack some undeserving innocent. Anger sparked, and Laurent's jaw locked. He had no weapon of his own, but it hardly stopped him from cutting through the crowd. He wasn't as tall as Damen, but it did not mean he didn't cut an impressive presence, enough to move them aside. What he found when the move stopped his breath short. ]
Damianos. [ He breathed it as though he could scarcely believe whom he was looking at, relief suffusing through him- short lived, as one of the gathering crowd seemed to have found their nerve; recognized Laurent for the outsider he was, and shoved him. ]
Scenario One
He remembered the beach, and so it was there he returned, looking for answers. What he found wasn't this- but perhaps it might have been better.
He didn't make it to the beach. Instead he was distracted by a growing crowd of disgruntled locals, not only blocking his way, but also seemingly about to attack some undeserving innocent. Anger sparked, and Laurent's jaw locked. He had no weapon of his own, but it hardly stopped him from cutting through the crowd. He wasn't as tall as Damen, but it did not mean he didn't cut an impressive presence, enough to move them aside. What he found when the move stopped his breath short. ]
Damianos. [ He breathed it as though he could scarcely believe whom he was looking at, relief suffusing through him- short lived, as one of the gathering crowd seemed to have found their nerve; recognized Laurent for the outsider he was, and shoved him. ]