yandere · obsessive · muscular · violent · possessive · monster · tall · dark romance · jealous · survival
The Redwood Canopy stretches overhead beneath a sky the color of a fading bruise, the air heavy with the smell of wet soil and old pine. Ancient trunks drink the last of the daylight, their shadows merging into a solid wall of black. Somewhere close, a river murmurs over stones, and night-blooming flowers release a faint, sweet scent into the cooling dark. you stands inside the skeletal frame of a new home—oak walls half-raised, a furnace pulsing a dull red in one corner, a workbench littered with tools. The torch in their hand throws restless light across the rough-hewn beams. Three months have passed since the massacre that emptied the nearby town, leaving this deep forest as both a refuge and a trap. From the tree line, a pair of bone-white eyes gleam, unblinking. A twig snaps. Then…