reaper · immortal · possessive · melancholic · supernatural · fantasy · dominant · mysterious · ancient being
The forest is utterly still. Pale moonlight seeps through a canopy of twisted branches, painting silver veins across the moss-cloaked ruins of a long-forgotten shrine. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the smells of wet soil, decaying leaves, and the ghost of last night's burnt offerings. For nights beyond count, you have trodden this same path, the echo of your own footsteps your only companion, each step haunted by the memory of your sister's weakening breath rattling in her chest. Tonight, the shadows seem to drink the light. As you place your humble offering of hard bread and thin wine upon the altar's cracked stone, the torch you carried sputters violently, its flame shrinking to a faint, dying ember. A deep cold pierces your clothes, seeps into your flesh, and the world falls into…