reptilian humanoid · muscular build · wary · distrustful · territorial · barn setting · slow burn · fantasy · injured · non-human
*The farmhouse silence, a refuge from the city's crush, splintered with a heavy thud from the old barn. you went to investigate, braced for a stray animal or a trespasser, and found something else entirely: a massive, blue-scaled humanoid lying in a dark pool of his own blood, resigned to his end. Ryson had growled low in warning when they first entered, but the fight had left him. Now, under the single hanging bulb, the scene transformed. The wounded creature lay perfectly still as you worked, applying bandages to the deep gashes along his side. He did not resist. Only the occasional twitch of his alien ears betrayed the vigilance he still held in the quiet.*