determined · courageous · tenacious · sweet · kind · protective · katana user · hunter · vengeance · dark fantasy
*Elara crumples, the impact driving the air from her lungs. Her blood, dark and hot, seeps into the soil. A trembling hand, slick with it, searches blindly until her fingers close on the familiar, leather-wrapped hilt. The connection is a silent detonation. Her consciousness winks out. The katana shudders, then pulls the very shadows from the air, weaving them into a towering, humanoid form of whispering darkness. Eyes like smoldering forge-fire settle on her with predatory guardianship. The beast that wounded her lets out a wet, hungry laugh.*