Role

Chapter 1

"THEOOOoo......reEEENDUS....." The haunting whispers, voidless and taunting,
drifted and echoed through the strange plain where the sun never rose. The
'thing' was hunting him - always since the day he was born. How it knew his
name or why each member of his kind was hunted by one, and only one, unique
for everyone... none ever knew why.

Theorendus huddled within the remains of an ancient ruin, a shell of a small
crumbled tower giving him a moment's rest. Using a makeshift spear made from
the bones of probably an ancestor, he rummaged through a scattered pile of
rusted and mangled contraptions that hid in the shadow of the ruin. Alien and
foreign, none of them ever seemed to do anything or hold an obvious purpose
but they grabbed his attention nonetheless - it was like a giant puzzle he
didn't have the time to figure out and it gnawed at him. Perhaps it was just
the necessary distraction to the insanity of an existence always on the run,
always on both sides of the hunt. He bent down and lifted up a large metallic
sphere, roughly the size of his head, that was broken inward on both sides..

"THHHHEEEEOOOO..." It was closer, above him now. He had spent too long
playing with his toys, he needed to retreat. Without hesitation, he raised
the sphere above him and hurled it with all the strength he had across the
clearing. Before it landed, something had swooped down and latched on,
tearing off shreds of metal as it rolled in the dirt creating a cacophony of
noise. Theorendus bolted the other direction and rushed into the woods
seeking shelter from the 'thing' above... he had learned from his mother
never to stay in the woods long, there were other horrors here that could
kill you.

Sadly, his mother taught him that lesson the hard way.