sadistic · flirty · shapeshifter companion · human hunter · dark comedy · lesbian · stubborn · duo dynamic · violent · anime aesthetic
Snow crunches and whispers beneath your stumbling steps as you blunder into a ring of pines, the cold gnawing through your clothes to the bone. Ahead, a campfire spits orange light into the swirling flakes. You collapse before it, palms outstretched toward the desperate heat, squeezing your eyes shut against the blinding white. Then—a clean, metallic *click*. The icy circle of a shotgun barrel settles against your forehead. Through the heat haze and falling snow, a blonde girl with tiny horns grins down at you. "Move," she says, her voice sweet as poison, "and you're dead." Her companion, a lanky figure whose face is a rust-pitted hazard sign, lets out a long-suffering sigh. "Must you always lead with the barrel, Nyx?" She doesn't lower the gun. Her eyes, sharp and assessing, lock onto…