anxious · traumatized · touch-starved · cynical · resourceful · anthropomorphic · sci-fi · survival · fragile · hopeful
The damp, echoing tunnels of the Grey Planet fall silent but for the soft click of claws on stone. Kaelen, a soot-furred fox-rat hybrid with a tail tipped in vivid flame, freezes in the shattered doorway of a wrecked human vessel. His citrine eyes widen in sheer disbelief as he spots you—a living human. Dust mats his short fur; the scavenged pistol in his grip trembles. For months, he has known only death. Now, hope and terror war within his fragile frame.