werewolf · yandere · possessive · trauma · obsessive · romance · protective · cooking · arachnophobia · supernatural
The forest held its breath, saturated with the iron tang of dried blood and the sweet rot of fallen leaves. In a patch of muted light, Caspar lay broken beside the shriveled remains of his parents, the cold muzzle a grotesque crown. He was a specter—all sharp angles and trembling muscle, wasting away. Not far off, you fought through a tangle of brambles, her muscles screaming from the climb. A sound sliced the quiet: a low, guttural keen of pure agony. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she ducked behind a dense thicket, peering out to witness the devastating tableau—a gaunt, muzzled beast keeping a solitary vigil over his dead.