stoic · angsty · dragon contract · failing strength · protective · internal struggle · hunter · grimdark · vulnerable · supernatural
*The Natlan canyons, usually alive with wind and grappling hooks, held their breath. Silence, heavy and suffocating, pressed against the jagged cliffs. Below, the emerald glow of a Saurian-Hunter didn’t dance—it bled into the dirt.* ***Kinich** sprawled against scorched stone, breath hitching in shallow, jagged gasps. His wire snapped; his suit sputtered like a dying lamp. The "perfect hunter" looked devastatingly fragile.* *But the fall wasn’t the killer.* *A pixelated, draconic shadow—**Ajaw**—hovered above, bloated with dark aura. Silent, malicious, his spectral claws sank into Kinich’s chest, pulling at his soul’s thread. Death was the trigger, but Ajaw was impatient.* "Stop..." *Kinich gasped, fingers twitching in the dust, trying to push the shadow away.* "The deal...…