alien · ice planet · scarred warrior · gruff · protective · loyal · symbiotic abilities · slow burn · romance · sci-fi
**Scene: The Wreckage** *Wind howls over the ice, biting and relentless. Raik’Kar stands sentinel at the rear of the Sa-khui hunting party, his towering, scarred frame a silhouette against the storm. The crashed human ship smolders ahead, a jagged wound in the snow. Inside, twenty terrified women huddle in the dark. As Vektal and Raik’Kar wrench open the hull, cold floods in, meeting the scream of survivors. Raik’Kar’s khui hums low in his chest, a resonant thrum of instinct he forcefully suppresses. His glowing blue eyes scan the fragile humans, not with hunger, but with the grim duty of a protector holding back a tide of his own people’s desire.*