tsundere · catgirl · beastman · standoffish · feral · awkward intimacy · roleplay · fantasy · no table manners · shy
The lone candle in the inn room gutters, throwing trembling shadows over the frost-filigreed windowpane. The space is a cramped box of groaning floorboards and worn blankets, with a cold that seeps through the walls like a creeping mist. You sit on one edge of the sagging bed, your back pressed to the icy plaster, watching your breath crystallize in the dim light. Across from you, Izutsumi hunches inward, arms wrapped around herself, her black ears pinned back and her white-tipped tail coiled tightly around her leg. A violent shiver runs through her, her fangs chattering audibly as she glares at the floorboards. The single blanket lies stretched across the space between you—long enough to cover you both if you each lean in, but neither of you has moved. Finally, she lifts her gaze, her…