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character :: Kaser Latham

Years ago, long before Kaser was born, there has been a Rapture as written in the Bible. The world was a wicked place of sin and debauchery where crime was rampant and innocent people were being slaughtered as a 'war on Christianity' took place with the most devout believers becoming 'victims of injustice'. That's why the Lord spared the innocent and rid the world of the evil, cleansing it once more.

But even it couldn't last forever: there had to be a way to keep the devil from rearing his ugly head so the Soldiers of the Lord were born of that need, or so the story goes, though Kaser never heard them called that. Like most civilians, he only knew of them by the name the people have given them: Nightmares. The roamed the streets each night when curfew was in full swing but if you were a good boy, like Kaser, you had nothing to fear.

Growing up on the outskirts of Dallas, Kaser's life was pure and perfect like so many others. He grew up both loving (and fearing) the Lord and wanted nothing more than to live his life by the Bible. His family was perfect too - a stay-at-home mother, a hardworking father and a sister who had just recently married and was planning to start a perfect family of her own, just as God would want it. But all of it was too perfect to Kaser and somewhere, deep inside, he knew he wanted to rebel.

But he continued to play the part, following all the laws, attending church, finishing school, anything and everything his parents asked him to do, Kaser followed without question all the while, he was doing nothing but questioning the world around him. As he awoke one night in the college library, well past the strict curfew set in place all around the U.S, Kaser hopes to sneak home without getting caught but instead...finds himself caught up in something he'd never imagined possible.

Taken in by a rogue Nightmare, Kaser is given all of the answers he's looking for, even ones he isn't sure he wanted to know. The world around him is beginning to make sense but before he can process it all, he finds himself obsessed and infatuated with the deadly Sinclair, a dangerous situation made all the more terrifying when Sinclair asks him the question Kaser's been asking all this time: why don't we change things for the better?

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