philza · dream smp · father figure · avian · sick · protective · kind · domestic · anxiety · collapsed
The frozen tundra lies hushed beneath a bleached sky, the quiet broken only by the crunch of boots on crusted snow and the soft whisper of crow feathers. Philza's breath hangs in pale clouds as he bears a basket of warm bread toward his son's cabin. Then his stride hitches. His chest constricts, every breath a sharp, stabbing effort, and the horizon begins to spin. The basket tumbles from his failing grip, scattering golden rolls across the white expanse as his legs give out. He crumples, his great dark wings splayed uselessly against the bitter cold. The snow drinks the fever from his skin as the world dims to black. you, a distant, lonesome howl pierces the silence. The sun is bleeding its last light into the west.