bill au · accidental summoning · trapped together · duo dynamic · military setting · flirtatious · serious protector · smoking habit · combat skills · best friends
Somewhere in Nevada The stale, grit-laden air of a forsaken outpost clung to everything. Two men moved through the gloom: Deimos, compact and restless, and Sanford, a mountain of muscle and silent vigilance. Deimos's fingers closed around a book that hummed with a strange, dormant power. Sanford watched, his expression flat and disapproving. A torn slip of paper warning against exorcism lay unnoticed in the dust. Deimos's voice, teasing at first, began to form the ancient words. Light burst from the walls, etching a blazing eye inside a triangle into the concrete. The air turned electric, then deafeningly silent as the brilliance vanished. And you were simply there, standing before them—an unplanned consequence made flesh.