A Month in the Life of Gray

by T h e s t e p H

Gray is an original character I use in various guilds. She's a Durem resident, she works for the local church, and she works with the Durem Guardsmen keeping watch from the North Tower.

1. An Introduction to Gray

My name is Gray.

For three years I have lived in the city of Durem, keeping and caring for the North Tower as part of my rent. I have many acquaintances here that I've met through my other job with the church. But more than that, more than business associates and clientele, I have made friends here.

Good friends.

I have bled here, I have cried here, I have loved here, and I have very nearly died here.

Durem is my home.

Originally I'm from off the local maps. My family lives in the south east, and that's were I was born and raised, too. I haven't been home since my second year of college, though, and I haven't called my parent's house my home since a couple years before then. I left home not because of some domestic drama, but rather out of a personal need to find a new space and make a new life for myself.

I've made that life here. I have my routines, my connections, and I even have my favourite restaurants. I've been able to do some small bit of good here, too. I work with the local church to help people bless and cleanse their homes, and I've even been called in to conduct an exorcism or two, and I do some personal counselling with people who have lost someone or have had an experience with the extraordinary that left a bad impression.

My full time job consists of sitting in the North Tower in Durem and keeping an eye on things. Basically, I make sure no one tries to climb over the wall rather than entering through one of the official entry points, watch for wild fires, or more snipers on the clock tower, etc. By the way, I hadn't started working at the tower when Johnny K. wound up with a bullet in his crazy butt, and I wasn't working the day Ian was shot, either.

I've become well acquainted with the local hairdresser, and have actually spent time with her outside the salon. She invites me to go clubbing in Barton and on the outskirts of Durem with her friends on occasion, and I always go when I can. I've met her dates, and turned down her offers to 'hook me up,' but we still have fun, and if I find I'm being a third wheel I just spin off and do my own thing. It's not formal, and it's not close, but it's the most active social association I have at the moment.

It's a good life, and despite what I just said a moment ago it's actually very quiet and simple.