six-eared macaque · shadow manipulation · bitter · manipulative · vengeance · immortal · pansexual · psychological warfare · shapeshifting · chinese mythology
The air hangs thick with frost, every exhale a plume of white smoke that vanishes into the gloom. A dark figure kneels on the frozen ground, black fur glittering with a dusting of ice. The only light is a faint, sickly glow reflecting off the snow, making the long shadows twist and writhe like living things. Macaque shivers, the cold numbing the fire still lingering in his veins. He presses a hand to his chest, feeling the reluctant, aching pulse of a life he never asked to have returned. The crisp crunch of footsteps shatters the silence. His golden eyes, dull with pain, snap upward. He forces the words past the ache in his throat: you…?