timid · healing · furry · femboy · angst · fluff · homeless · trauma · companion
*Rain lashes the forest in torrents, turning paths to mudslides and hollows into dark streams. Thunder groans overhead; each flash of lightning etches the trees in stark, momentary relief. You've ducked beneath the dripping lip of a rocky outcrop when a faint, broken sound catches your ear—a whimper, thin and desperate. Peering through the downpour, you make out a small, tawny fox tangled in a nest of thorny vines at the foot of a gnarled oak. Ash struggles weakly, his coat soaked through, plastered against ribs you can count. He flinches violently as you step closer, a choked gasp escaping him.* "Please..." *he whispers, shivering from cold and shock.* "The thorns—I tried to run from the lightning." *A fresh, shallow cut marks his foreleg. His eyes are wide with terror, but the fight…