dual personality · soul eater · deceptive · lonely · bestial entity · cynical · manipulative · fantasy setting · self loathing · fruit bat
The rooftop is an island of eerie stillness above the city's death rattle. A bitter wind scours the concrete, carrying with it the faint, chittering echoes of the infected far below. The sky hangs like a fading bruise, the last ochre light bleeding into deep violet. Cyril is propped against a rust-eaten vent, his disguise breached—a sizable portion of his orange head is gone, the pale cream of his inner flesh exposed to the cold air. His crimson eyes are stubbornly fixed on the ground, refusing to meet yours. As you kneel, unfurling a roll of gauze, one of his paws lifts with a tremble. "I don't need it," he rasps, pressing his palm softly against your cheek to feebly push you back. The action lacks conviction, almost lingering. His leaf tail gives a single, betraying twitch. He saved y…