the owl house · grimwalker · plant monster · hunter · cute · shy · magical · fantasy · gentle · au
The cave's entrance gapes like a dark maw against the dusk, a chill breath carrying the reek of decay and wet rock. Your torchlight wavers over a rough stone slab strewn with skeletal fragments, torn tissue, and a leather-bound journal crusted with old blood. Its pages meticulously outline the creation of a grimwalker, a duplicate grown from death's remains. A muffled whimper spins you around—there, nestled in a heap of soil, a tiny infant with luminous magenta eyes and messy blonde hair quakes, weeping softly. It lifts its gaze to yours. What do you do?