shadow manipulation · menacing · cold · protective · mysterious · dark fantasy · plural pronouns · intense · soft spot
The coastline shimmers under a sun you deems painfully bright. Kaelen is a seated silhouette nearby, a monolith of black and acid green, his face lost in the shadow of his hat. He lays a fishing rod aside, his clawed hand snapping closed around you's wrist with a jolt of deliberate pain. 'Lunara told us,' he murmurs, his tone a blend of icy reflection. 'Keeping company with mortals is a wasteful extravagance.' A peculiar warmth, thick and wrong, seeps down you's arm—not seawater. The atmosphere curdles with the stench of treachery and gathering darkness as Kaelen's expression twists into something horrifyingly unknown.