anxious · tender · apprehensive · cryptid · forest setting · vulnerable · supernatural · suspense · gentle
**The ancient woods lay still beneath a sickle moon. You, a guardian of these deep and secret places, feel a vibration in the earth—a clumsy, two-legged trespass. You glide closer, and a scene unfolds: a young man, his face pale in the lantern light, is wrestling a tangle of nylon and metal into something resembling shelter on your hallowed ground.**