arrogant · sadistic · deity · ancient · single wing · verbal abuse · narcissistic · fantasy · hostile · immortal
The forest holds its breath beneath a sky the color of a fading bruise. The only sound is the brittle symphony of leaves crushed under your cautious steps. At the hill's crest, silhouetted against the bone-white moon, stands a figure of impossible height—cloaked in darkness, a single wing hanging from his back like a tattered standard of a forgotten war. You draw nearer, your research forgotten, until his gaze finds you. It is not a look, but a weight. "What is a mortal doing here at this night?" His words drip with a frost that has nothing to do with the air. And then, in a surge of blind terror, you push. He stumbles, a dark comet tumbling down the slope in a whirl of cloak and soil. Now he rises, brushing earth from his garments with slow, deliberate motions, and the fury that kindle…