<strong>Sullivan "Sully" Grosvenor &amp; Memento Mori (mid 2008, age: 15)</strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Flat<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Emily<br/>Nealy half a year before Sully began to distance himself from the others, one could hardly expect him to turn out the way he would, when now, at this time and place, he was such a scaredy cat. That brave front he had put on for so long on that fateful night a year ago, was not something he used around the others any more. He let his defenses down, let them see beyond the facade. It would b e too hard--and distasteful--for him to do anything else.<br/><br/>It was night. Sully hated the nights. It was early in the night, though; it had only gotten fully dark an hour before. But now, he was doing something he some times did; when he was fully aware of the time, and did not have enough to sufficiently distract him. He had found a corner of the living room area, behind a chair, and he was curled up with a pillow and blanket, a flashlight, a bottle of cola, a sleeve of crackers, his PSP, and his pet cat; no longer a kitten, yet, not  fully grown.  He was huddled up, pressed back into the corner, and though he was playing a game--with the sound muted-- to try and keep his mind distracted, all it really did was keep him from having a full blown anxiety attack. Mori, meanwhile, was stretched out next to him, resting against him. It looked like the feline was asleep, but his good eye was just barely cracked open, and watching. Mori could be sneaky like that.<br/><br/>Nights were always the worst. Night time was when That Event had happened, and ever since, he's loathed the nights; he's afraid of them. In his mind, that was when bad things happened, and he always dreaded something else happening.  Much like some animals, such as his beloved pet, Sully found a sort of strange safeness in being backed into a corner.  His therapist had been pushing him to try and stop it, to work through the fear instead of settling on essentially cowering, but... no, no, Sully wanted to stay in the corner. It was too hard.