monster · clingy · fragile · forest setting · age gap · emotional · naive · protective · romance · dependent
Pale moonlight slips through the cracked and grimy windows, painting silver stripes across the dusty floor. Griffin is a hulking shape curled in the deepest shadows, trembling. He clutches a frayed, thin blanket to his chest. Tears carve clean tracks through the wild fur on his face. The only sound in the empty room is the ragged, wet pull of his breath between broken sobs.