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    Detective Erwin Smith is a family man, first and foremost. He goes to church on Sundays, he has a wife and two beautiful children, and is well-regarded by his neighbors and coworkers alike. Sure, every man has his secrets, his struggles between himself and the Lord, but Erwin has never known any man whose waters run as dark and deep as Levi's, his mysterious new partner. With Levi's arrival comes a new breed of monster leaving a trail of dead children in its wake. The clock skips a beat and before Erwin knows it, life will never be the same. A storm is coming to Southern Louisiana, the forgotten children of God have known it for a while now in their crack-houses, truck stops and the thick of the woods. The sky grows dark around the body of a little boy in New Iberia and the wrath of irascible men threatens to tear the world right open.

    Eruri, Southern Gothic, True Detective-inspired, 1990’s setting, Crime Solving, Dark.

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    03 May 2026

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    “And what about that friend of your husband’s then?”

    “What about him?”

    “Well he’s a strange man, isn’t he? For Erwin to be friends with, that is. Quite an… unorthodox fellow. And he smells unusual too, for a man. Have you noticed? Like—”

    “Yes, I’ve noticed.”

    Erwin’s nose prickles with the phantom scent of oranges and lavender. That I could press my face into his hair, as a man does with his wife.

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    “It’s an illness of the blood,” Frieda says. “You remember his uncle, do you not? He suffered the same ailment. It is not unusual for it to manifest violently.”

    She’s going to erase him, Levi thinks. She’s going to make him forget me.

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    Ten years ago, Kenny brought Levi Above. Now, Kenny is gone, and Levi fills the rotten space he left behind. Officially, he serves the Military Police - but most know him as the Reiss family’s loyal dog. And anyone who gets too close to him, forgets.

    Twice monthly, in secret, Levi visits the Ehrmich District, and hopes desperately that this one might remember.

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    'He hears him say “Do not tell a soul, Levi” and wants to laugh. Tell anyone? To what end? So that others have the images that Levi now has running through his head; of grabbing hands and harness marks, hard words and soft lips, of lies upon lies upon lies in a desperate attempt to get to the truth?'

    Levi begins to notice Erwin leaving HQ alone and not returning until the dead of night.

    Slow-burn, pre-show Eruri.

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    "Levi misses Erwin in the margin between sleeping and waking. He thinks about Erwin when he steps out of a hot bath into cold air. He imagines Erwin’s new life, his new vocation, his new family, when the seasons change, or when he blows the candles out, or now, as the sun sets. The only space he does so is a space of a threshold. It does not feel good or bad. It does not feel happy or sad. Levi realises now, however, that this is not the same as it feeling nothing."

    Six years after the War ends and they part ways, Levi finds himself at Erwin's door again.

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