Snippet #1565211

“And it seems I’m not where I was when I fell asleep,” Claud stated, walking through the roads of his own mind. He looked around and found, through the stench alone, the sight of a dog laying dead in the street. It was rare to find an dog in the street around here, since they were purely pets. He bent down beside it. “Hello, and what might your name be?”

Of course, there was no response. He checked the nametag and frowned. ‘Claud Fortune’ was engraved in the silver tag, connected to the collar. “Claud? That name certainly sounds familiar…” He shrugged and smiled, turning to his back pack to grab his pencil and notepad. As he grabbed it, he heard a distinct growling sound and turned back around with a gasp as the dog stood, face-to-face with him, snarling dangerously. There was no way he was alive. Claud was sure that dog was dead. He scooted back on his bum hesitantly. “Now, Claud, you know better than to bite a harmless human, right?”

The dog apparently did not. Claud suddenly felt something around his neck and looked down to check it, yanking it off from around his neck. In his hands laid a dog collar with a dogtag. ‘Claud Fortune’ was engraved in it. “Oh, I remember now.” The growling came to his attention again and he looked up just in time as the dog opened it jaws wide and—

Claud sat straight up in bed, breathing harsh. He looked down at his hands, then around the room, before relaxing. He was in a cell or a room or something. He remembered now. He remembered everything. Frowning, he forced himself to his feet. “That alarm is really quite annoying,” he grumbled to himself as he went to the door. He could hear voices out in the hall. The door was ajar, as if someone had gone directly from his room and ran out to whatever trouble was being caused. With his IB in one hand, he cautiously started down the hall, stopping only as he heard a female’s voice shouting on the other side of a door (Alyssa). He opened the door easily from this side, greeted with the face of a girl, at which he smiled at. “Hello. Welcome to floor one, where Hell has been loosed. Did you need some sort of assistance or can I continue on my way to the excitement?”