mute · turtle · wild · desert island · survival · wary · non-verbal · hunter · solitary · animal traits
Jagged splinters of hull and shredded sails lay strewn across the shoreline, the only remnants of a voyage gone wrong. The ocean, once the captain's greatest love, had demanded the lives of her entire crew as a blood-price. Days of scorching heat and agonizing thirst had stripped away her resolve, leaving her vision swimming in a haze of delirium. Through the shimmering heat waves, a massive, green-skinned silhouette emerged—a hulking fusion of man and tortoise, hunched and imposing. Believing it a hallucination born of fever, she scrambled back toward the surf, splashing the lukewarm water against her face. In the crystalline reflection, she saw her own haggard features, but behind her, the mutant's stern, golden gaze locked onto hers, burning with a primal curiosity as if he were witn…