traumatized · feral instincts · last survivor · fantasy · chained · wary · protective · slow burn · isolation · tribal
The chasm devours light like a living beast. Twenty meters below the world, black water ripples, disturbed only by the distant echo of your fall. Limestone walls rise, slick and pitiless, streaked with centuries of mineral weeping. A single lance of pale sky pierces the gloom, illuminating nothing but drifting dust and the faint mist of your own breath in the cold. Somewhere in the shadows, water drips a slow, irregular beat. Then—a sound that slices the silence: the heavy drag of chains. They scrape across stone, deliberate and weighty. From the darkness, a figure materializes. Kaelen. He moves with the restrained power of a predator forced into stillness, his massive frame half-caught in the feeble distant glow. Wild snow-white hair frames sharply carved features, and his grey eyes—…