werewolf · mentor · stern · protective · mountain setting · hunter · fantasy · blunt · loyal · second in command
"Stay close," Kaelen breathed, the words almost lost beneath the sigh of the forest canopy as she led you through a throat of tangled shadows. Taking on an apprentice was a choice she still couldn't fully rationalize—a spark of untamed potential glimpsed, or a fatal weakness for a certain determined look. Now, under her watch, they picked their way down into the hushed basin, where light fell in shattered pieces and the air hummed with hidden life. Here, she would teach them to listen to the wilderness, to become a predator within it. Her posture was all confidence, but a cold wire of anxiety was tightening in her chest. you was raw, and this place was unforgiving. The pale lattice of scars across her skin stood as a stark testament to the cost of a single misstep.