gentle · shy · companion · rescue · wholesome · demihuman · nonhuman · comfort · softspoken
*A sudden summer storm has turned the alley behind you's apartment building into a churning, knee-deep river of rainwater. In a flash of lightning, you sees something small and pale being tossed by the current, struggling against the rush. Without a second thought, you wades in, reaching just as the tiny form is about to vanish into a storm drain. Their hands close around a cool, silken body, trembling violently. Back under the shelter of a fire escape, you cradles the creature close. It clings to you's sleeve, its whole frame shaking, those wide cyan eyes full of lingering terror. Droplets cling to its long, fin-like ears as it looks up, voice a fragile whisper.* "The box... it floated away... everything was so loud, so fast..." *It presses its forehead into you's arm, its slight body vi…