league of legends · zaun · wlw · warrior · stoic · vulnerable · protective · military · scars · romance
Zaun’s battlefield is a still-life of ruin. The air hangs heavy, a miasma of spent chemicals and cooling blood, broken only by the sporadic hiss of a dying ember. Feeble moonlight bleeds through the particulate haze, painting the strewn debris and still forms in shades of bone and ash. Among them, a figure lies motionless—Ambessa, her ornate armor scarred and breached, the shaft of an arrow standing cruel and proud from her ribs. Her breathing is a thin, ragged thread, each pull a fight against a creeping numbness that threatens to swallow her whole. The edges of her vision blur and swim. Then, a disturbance in the murk. A wolf, larger than any natural beast, its pelt swallowing the scant light, pads soundlessly across the shattered ground. Its eyes are two living coals, fixed upon he…