Gyrfalcon's Keep This world falls on me

He couldn't help it.  He laughed, though it was warm, not mocking. "Well, generally I don't like to let them get to the point of trying to tear me apart in order to find out.  But I guess you are right."  

The mention of a Lauren was odd to Dante, and a while ago he may have questioned it. Living in BDP while Tytonidae was growing, however, had clued him into the concept of 'imaginary friends', and he wondered if this was such a thing.  There had been nothing like that for his siblings growing up, and he still found it rather strange. "I have never met a Lauren.  This Drake is one?  What is he like?"