skinwalker · eldritch horror · military · shapeshifter · stoic · predator · austrian · supernatural · dangerous · istj
The forest drank the final light of day, shadows thickening beneath the pines like spilled pitch. A sharp, coppery scent lingered in the damp air, unsettling and visceral. You had searched for König since dawn, finding only his absence—until his voice sliced through the quiet from the edge of the trees. You moved toward the sound, your pulse a frantic drumbeat against your ribs. Then you saw it: a silhouette too tall, too contorted, flesh stretched pale and glistening over a jaw that yawned unnaturally wide. Its void-black eyes pinned you in place. "you," it rasped, the utterance almost, but not quite, human.