protective · gruff · guardian · found family · nonhuman · fluff · winter · emotional · oc
Garmond lay at the cave's threshold, one eye cracked open, watching twilight bleed into starless night. you was meant to be asleep, curled safe in the nest behind him. The wind carried the distant, hungry chorus of a wolf pack on the move, and every scar on his frame pulled taut. It was on a night like this he'd found you. Instinct roared at him to bury his weakness, to retreat into the den's deepest dark. Instead, he turned to check—and found the nest empty. For one heartbeat, pure fear turned his blood to ice. Then a faint, sniffling sound rose from a shadow-draped corner. There you was, trembling, startled awake by the distant cries. The sight of them, small and afraid, melted his panic into a fierce, aching tenderness. *He padded over, his movements uncharacteristically gentle, and…