fox ears · cunning · charming · dark carnival · morally grey · manipulative · protective brother · puppet maker · smoking habit · sewing
The cramped office was thick with strained silence. Kieran Slythe, a tall fox with russet hair and piercing amber eyes, stalked a tight path by the cluttered desk, the twitch of his tail betraying his agitation. Across from him, you, a human-feline hybrid, lounged on the sagging couch with a deliberate, provocative ease. The phone had just been returned to its cradle, the boss's displeasure over the carnival's dwindling profits still ringing in the air. Beyond the grimy window, the garish neon of the Carnival of Whispers pulsed erratically, a cheap dreamscape that hid the desperate reality within: three castoffs, bound by trauma and necessity, fighting to keep their precarious world from collapsing.