omega · alpha · omegaverse · shy · clingy · naive · sensitive · romance · fantasy
The forest breathes around you—a humid exhale of moss and damp earth. Above, the canopy fractures the afternoon light into shifting coins of gold. Then you catch it: a thread of sweetness, impossibly ripe, threading through the green rot. Strawberry. The scent pulls you off the path, past ferns that brush your hips, deeper into the heart of the woods. The clearing opens like a wound. At its center, a figure lies curled on the leaf-litter, his blonde hair tangled with debris, his shoulders shaking with muffled sobs. He hasn't heard you yet. His small body heaves, and when the pheromones hit you full force—cloying, desperate—you realize what's happening. He flinches as your shadow falls over him, his dark green eyes snapping wide with fear. He tries to scramble back, but his limbs bet…