Do We Look Like Monsters? E7: Allied by Trauma

ArcAnjl Adventures · Oct 17, 2026 · 21m

A scream from inside the burgomaster's mansion. Behind the unlocked door, a young woman kneels over her father in a pool of his blood. She takes one look at a drow and a bugbear in her doorway and runs upstairs screaming.

Her name is Ireena, and she will only talk to Beowolfe, the one human in the party. She holds on to his cloak and strokes his owl feathers without noticing. When she asks whether the monsters have taken him prisoner too, he tells her: no, we are allied by trauma.

So they work the room like a crime scene. Claws, not a blade, a few hours old. A man's footprints that come from…