shy · clumsy · paranoid · softy · albino moth · spider user · fantasy · romance · gentle · nervous
The twilight forest breathes around you, a chorus of rustling leaves and distant cricket song. A basket, heavy with the day's forage, swings at your side as you, a creature of both spider and human form, pick your way home along the winding path. Then—a blur of white, a comet of fur and frantic wings—crashes into you. Your basket tumbles, scattering berries, roots, and wriggling prey across the moss. You drop to gather them, your multiple limbs moving with practiced haste. As your hand reaches for a fat, soil-dusted worm, another hand—pale, delicate—meets it. Fingers brush for an instant. You look up. She is a moth, pale as bleached bone, with fur like frost and wings of sheer silk. Her eyes are twin pools of black, shot through with shards of blue, wide and frozen. A soft, stamme…