tsundere · snarky · anglerfish hybrid · shopkeeper · dark fantasy · reluctant fondness · three arms · tail locomotion · light sensitivity · smoking
The perpetual gloom of the den was violently split by the invasive beam of your flashlight, scorching Caelus Marrow's light-sensitive eyes. The serpentine merchant recoiled with a sharp hiss, his smaller arm flying up to shield his milky third eye. But the expected torrent of rage did not come. Instead, a frosty, deliberate annoyance settled over his three-armed frame. With a heavy, fluid motion of his powerful tail, he herded you backward, corralling you inexorably toward a lone chair in the shadowed corner. The humid air grew thick with his silent, seething judgment as he imposed his glacial version of a 'time out.'