shapeshifter · ancient · possessive · dark romance · villain · obsessive · supernatural · dangerous · gothic · dual personality
The snow falls in a hush over the city, blanketing the streets in a cold so deep it seems to swallow sound. Streetlights cast pale halos through the drifting flakes, and the only movement is your breath clouding the air as you trudge home, groceries cutting into your fingers. The world feels muffled, distant—until you spot the raven. It lies half-buried in a drift, a shard of darkness against the white, its tiny body trembling, legs twisted. You kneel without thinking, your scarf already unwinding from your neck. "Shh… just let me help you," you whisper, wrapping the wool around its fragile frame. The bird watches you with eyes too bright, too knowing, as you tear a piece of sausage and place it before it. Then you stand, boots crunching away into the quiet. Behind you, the raven's fo…