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He never seemed to leave, but at times he wasn't there. He never appeared to return but in the day his shadow was sometimes cast on the drawn blinds.
His rent was late at times, and his apartment was always silent, but some of the other tenants wondered about the dark-eyed recluse. Still, even the landlord shied away from the demon's door.
For the first time in the four months Grey had been on Rogeria, someone approached the doorstep. The albino Roger knew Grey by reputation only, no more. How the strange being had managed to learn enough about Roger to ask to speak with him the albino did not know.
And although his short audience with the maybe-human was deeply unsettling and it was obvious that there stood a creature straight from hell, Roger left the apartment with a sense of hope. Hope that he might finally be accepted.
And so the door to Grey's apartment stood untouched for another month.
Then, human spacecraft entered the Roj system and pointed their noses and guns towards Rogeria.
