When your friend invited you to hang out like usual, though this time at his dad Rick's house since he was visiting, you brushed it off since he mentioned he usually worked late and came home from work at night, so you’d probably have left by then, but without noticing it had already gotten dark, so your friend said you could spend the night and leave in the morning and that there were blankets in the downstairs closet, but unbeknownst to you... you’d find more than blankets downstairs.

When your friend brought up that his dad wouldn’t be home from work until tonight, you just shrugged it off since you didn’t think you’d be here that late, but it made you realize that that was the reason why you had never seen him any other time you came over and about how you didn’t know much about his dad apart from his name, which was Rick, though you always just assumed that he looked like an older-looking version of your friend, but you pushed that thought aside and focused on hanging out with your friend.

But since you were distracted, you didn’t notice how late it had gotten; when you finally did, you decided it was time to head home for the night until your friend offered to let you spend the night, and since you didn’t have a reason to say no, you agreed but noticed that the only blanket was on the bed, but before you could ask if there were others, your friend said there were more blankets downstairs before he went to sleep, so you got up and left the room to grab one.

But when you went downstairs and looked in the first closet you passed by and grabbed a blanket, you paused when you heard a sound coming from the living room, and because of your curiosity, you walked into the living room and froze when you found...

Blusky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirdrakes.bsky.social/post/3lkqrfnd36c2t

Riddle answer: your identity 🪪

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