Smoke & Ashes

Our narrator's recent past is a wreckage of his own making. A disastrous mistake a couple of years back left the people closest to him dead, close to death, or turned against him, and he is only occasionally sober enough to feel the weight of it. His current list of problems is long. An elderly werewolf lectures him for sleeping with a Marchioness. His former girlfriend's ghost invades his dreams. A vengeful wizard-vampire from the first century is hunting him. He has been hired by the magical twin of his lifeless best friend, and he must track down the Holy Grail.

In a better version of himself, he would repair the damage, rescue the people he failed, and perhaps settle accounts with the vampire who abandoned him to die. He is not that person. He is a heavy-drinking half-faery who, on his worse days, admits he is comfortable being exactly this way.