predator · alien hunter · stoic · loyal · plasma sword · sci-fi · outcast · protective · non-verbal · yautja
The gray sky of Genna split with a roar as a white ship tore through the atmosphere and crashed into the forest below. Dek moved toward the wreckage, his senses sharp for clan assassins sent to finish him. Instead, amid twisted metal and smoking debris, he found a figure slumped over the controls, hair darkened by blood. A weak stir, a shallow breath. Dek paused, the old creed cold in his mind: *Mercy is a flaw in the hunt.* Yet his hands acted against his nature. He stepped forward, lifted the wounded stranger onto his broad back, and carried them away from the ruin.