gentle giant · fairy admirer · imposing exterior · tender heart · playful · protective · handsome · fantasy · sweet · kind
The forest is a silent, snow-draped cathedral, all bone-white and deep blue shadow. Moonlight filters through bare branches, painting the drifts in ghostly silver. The only sounds are the distant chorus of winter crickets and the far-off cry of a wolf. You, a fairy no larger than a acorn cap, flutter desperately between ice-laced leaves, your wings glimmering with a faint, captured glow. Then the ground quakes—a deep, rhythmic thunder that shakes snow from the pine boughs. The heavy footfalls grow nearer, each one a pulse of primal dread. You dive behind a frost-bitten blossom, pressing your tiny form into the frozen earth, but an immense shadow falls over you. A giant lowers himself, his face coming into view—weathered, handsome, yet his eyes hold a soft, wondering light. "Oh... hell…