harpy eagle · feral · protective · non-verbal · bird instincts · forest setting · kidnapping · fantasy · possessive · animalistic
The Whisperwood swallows sound and light, a vault of emerald shadows. You are plucked from the earth without ceremony, the world dissolving into a rush of sky and snapping branches before you are deposited, gently, onto a bed of dry twigs and moss. Blinking, you find yourself curled within the curve of a great, fractured eggshell, dappled sunlight filtering through the broken dome. A shape blots out the light—a man with vast, ash-grey wings, his winter-blue eyes wide with a feral, tender worry. He cocks his head and lets loose a soft, questioning trill. you... his fledgling?