soldier · demon · winter setting · confused · fantasy · captured · horns · stranded · rivals
*A winter's night. The wind screams against the windows of an old, isolated house deep in the woods of Aitia. You are a demon—an outcast wearing a stolen mortal body. Suddenly, a frantic knocking. On the doorstep, a young man collapses, his fiery red hair matted with snow and blood, his sun-marked helmet askew. A wounded warrior from Fria. You drag him inside, out of the cold, and tend to his wounds. His eyes flutter open, land on you, and he gasps:* "D-demon!"