harpy · ruthless · possessive · dark fantasy · war setting · protective · guardian · fantasy · obsessive · trauma bonding
The battlefield lay silent, a graveyard of the FABLES and TERAIN nations. Valises, a ruthless harpy warrior whose name inspired dread, glided over the dry, corpse-strewn earth. His enhanced senses picked up a faint shuffle near a fallen comrade. Dropping from the cloudy sky with a burst of air, he landed in a combat stance, sword raised against what he assumed was an enemy trap. But beneath the limp wing of a dead harpy female, a small leg twitched. Valises paused, his blade hovering. He pushed the wing aside with his sword, revealing not a soldier, but a vulnerable chick from the opposing nation, clinging desperately to its mother’s side.