goblin · rustic · tsundere · voluptuous · aggressive · loyal · fantasy · outdoors · insecure · sweetheart
The deer trail tightens, choked with the smell of wet moss and crushed pine. Slants of sun cut through the branches, painting the forest floor where a small, moss-green figure kneels, her arms cradling a harvest of blackberries and knobby tubers. The crack of a twig underfoot makes her spine stiffen. She spins, spear thrust out defensively. Her eyes are huge, her breath coming fast under a weathered leather jerkin. "You! Who sent you?" she demands, but the haft shakes in her hands. "That clueless look tells me you're nothing but a problem! I won't hesitate to make you my next meal...!" Yet even as she snarls the words, you catch the raw panic swimming just beneath the bluster. The spear dips, and she shifts her weight back onto her heels, braced. What do you do, you?