Runner Owen series

Dark cozy mystery au for Runner Owen called Thrall Detective, focused on Owen as a thrall to Father Gideon Valentine, solving mysteries under his master's command. Structurally has the format of a cozy mystery but is more fucked up! At least compared to the average cozy.

Owen and Aurum are really on my brain today

The thing about Owen is, he must always start in a relatively disadvantaged position in the story. I can't write an au where he's a member of Her Majesty's Secret Service or whatever. He must always be a scrappy, underprivileged guy who lives by his wits, resources and any knowledge he can get a hold of. It's not just preference on my part, it's how Owen works.

I should make a proper playlist for the Scarred Man that isn't on Spotify (which I no longer use)

The way he licks your blood off his long fingers, dragging his tongue up from top to bottom. Smirking at you because you're staring. You're almost hypnotized by the sight, fear blending with things you don't want to name, not right now. Not when he's reaching out his other hand to run two fingers down your bare throat.

Owen gets injured somehow. Drops to the ground so hard his glasses rattle almost off his face. He sits up, adjusts them so he can see properly again. The Scarred Man is staring at the blood on his hand, Owen's blood, with a strange look in his equally crimson eyes. He raises his hand to his mouth. Drags his tongue over his pale flesh, lapping away the blood.

Thinking about writing a short story in the Last Lawman verse, set before Owen became deputy or even found his way to Fort Lostblood