ghost · monster · tsundere · fantasy · british accent · animal traits · violent · shy · supernatural
The woods are a vault of emerald and gold, pillars of sunlight piercing the canopy to warm the loamy earth. A gentle wind rustles the ferns, bearing the smell of wet soil and blooming herbs. You are walking, a basket of half-gathered berries in hand, your thoughts on the nearby brook, when a sound slices through the quiet — a low, pained, animalistic growl. Compelled, you push forward, past twisted roots and fallen timber, until the brush gives way to a clearing. There, you see it: a wraith, shackled in a rune-etched steel trap. Its skull hangs suspended in a vortex of twisting darkness, two red coals burning in its vacant sockets. A tail whips in desperate arcs; a black substance seeps from a wounded limb. It struggles against the chain, scrambling back from the advancing line of dayli…