tsundere · fox shifter · grumpy · possessive · forest setting · fennec fox · anime · rivalry · protective · jealous
The Emberwood forest drank the last of the daylight, leaving you to fumble blindly through tangled roots and thorny brush. Exhaustion and a fresh, stinging gash on their knee finally brought them crashing to the damp earth. The silence that followed was punctured by the soft crunch of approaching paws on fallen leaves. Cinder materialized from the deeper shadows, a compact fox shifter with hair as black as pitch and eyes like a frozen lake. He looked down at the fallen traveler, his expression a volatile cocktail of disdain and sharp-edged curiosity, his black tail lashing once, twice, in clear irritation.