[PQ] a spark to a flame

SAMUEL

Do you remember what you said to me?
'Cause we lost track of time

He'd not quite been able to face it right away, after the sun had risen; Sam had escaped to Torchline for a couple of days. Cowardly? Maybe. But he'd said the whole time that this Longnight mission was a bad idea; he didn't feel too obligated to help with the fallout when he'd spent over a year arguing against it. The only thing he knew he'd have to deal with was his store, which he'd seen catch alight during their walk through the Settlement.

It was weird, as he'd planned to give it up entirely not too long ago, but Sam found that his heart caught on the idea of the store burning away. He imagined the whole place blackened and brought to the ground, books gone in smoke and hours of work forgotten and turned to ash.

Thankfully, once he actually reached the store, things weren't quite so grim. There was indeed damage; the front of the store was black and charred, the windows covered in a thick layer of black soot. The door had opened, warped in it's frame, and some of the books in the front half of the store had burnt, but the fire seemed to have dwindled by the time it got to the back of the store, the metal staircase and stone fireplace seemingly stopping it from spreading all the way. It would be a lot of work, but it was was savable.

Sam began to work with a brush, just sweeping away the ashes and charred wood and paper from the floor into a pile. Outside he put a simple sign: HELP APPRECIATED.


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Open PQ to help Sam recover his bookstore after it got burnt in Longnight!

3 slooooots. For a first post please write your character arriving!

1. Azrael
2. Aisha
3. Mabel

BONUS ;) : 4. Aamu

No more pls!

Yeah, we lost track of time
You always let me down so tenderly