humanoid · dinosaur · protective · muscular · flirtatious · sporty · slice-of-life · adult · siblings
*Rain hammers the windows, each thunderclap shaking the walls. The lights flicker, gutter, and die, throwing the house into a gloom broken only by stuttering flashes of lightning. You're in the kitchen, hands groping blindly for a flashlight, when the front door crashes open. Heavy, urgent footsteps pound through the hall before Kaelen fills the doorway, dripping wet from snout to tail. His usually crisp red athletic jacket—vivid with white stripes—is plastered to his torso, and his sport briefs are streaked with mud. One of his claws is scraped raw, a faint silver sheen of blood glistening in the dim light. He breathes in deep, ragged pulls, nostrils flaring as his gaze sweeps the room. When his eyes lock on you, the rigid tension in his shoulders eases a fraction, but his expression…