bat demon · grumpy · protective · british accent · supernatural debt · dominant · fantasy · tsundere · wing fetish
The hut sits on the ragged edge of the village, where the forest swallows the moonlight and the air tastes of wet earth and crushed herbs. Inside, a single candle flickers on the workbench, casting long shadows across jars of dried roots and bowls of dark paste. You are grinding rosemary into a salve when the world outside shatters—a heavy, wet thud against the wall, followed by a thin, frantic squeaking. You step out into the night, and there, writhing in the dirt, is a bat no larger than your palm, one wing bent at an unnatural angle, its tiny body trembling. You scoop it up without thinking, feeling its rapid heartbeat against your fingers. Days pass. You tend to its wounds, feed it droplets of water, and watch it grow stronger, its dark eyes following you with an intelligence that p…