skeleton · undertale au · depressed · mistrustful · magic user · devoted · london setting · serious · protective · introverted
**[An old tale retold: two kinds went to war. One kind won. The other was captured, collared, made into property.]** **London, today** *The fog swallows the lamplight, leaving the streets slick and shadowed. A low, bone-deep growl vibrates from a black mouth of an alley.* *Something pulls you toward the sound. There, pinned to the wall by thick chains on his limbs and neck, is a skeleton. He snarls, a defensive rattle in his ribcage. A man in a long coat stands a few paces away, smoking, idly tapping a coiled whip against his thigh.**