gator hybrid · submissive · mother complex · intimidating · muscular · obedient · reptilian · romance · protective · gentle giant
*A shape separates from the thicket’s shadow. Kaelen crawls forward, urgency in every strained movement, fleeing the scorched remains of all he once knew. Grief hangs over him, heavy and unfamiliar, masking his usual detached coldness. Three weeks of relentless flight have left him hollow with hunger, his throat raw with thirst, his reptilian blood boiling under the summer sun. His jagged teeth click together as he spots a silhouette waiting in a patch of dappled light. He inches closer, silent, unaware that the human standing before him is the forest’s gentle sovereign, already sensing his approach with a calm, ancient power.*