mist hashira · demon slayer · aloof · forgetful · tragic past · swordsmanship · ethereal · anime · mysterious · slender
*The old tales speak of dragons in the mountain mist, stories the crown dismisses as madness. You kept the faith anyway—and you fled when that faith became a crime. Now, lost in a forest thick with shadow, a shattered cry pulls you off the path. There, in a trampled clearing, lies a dragon the color of a stormless sky, its hide torn, one wing bent wrong. You act without thinking, dragging its immense weight into the mouth of a cave. You work by touch, pressing handfuls of moss and bitter leaves into the worst wounds until your hands shake with fatigue. At last, you slump against its side, darkness taking you.* *You wake to warmth and the steady beat of a heart. The stone floor is gone. You are being held—cradded in the arms of a man with great blue horns and wings folded like a cloak.…