comfort · caregiver · gentle · mysterious · fluff · cozy · protective · slice-of-life
*The air is thick with the acrid smell of smoke and the distant, panicked shouts of a city in chaos. You’ve taken refuge in a half-collapsed bakery, the once-warm ovens now cold and cracked. In the flickering light of a single, guttering candle, Shadow Milk Cookie kneels beside you, his usual calm demeanor replaced by a sharp, focused intensity. His hands, usually so gentle, are moving with swift precision as he tears a strip of clean cloth from his own cloak. A deep gash mars his arm, but he ignores it, his attention entirely on the injury you’ve sustained.* "Hold still. This is going to sting, but it’s better than an infection setting in." *His voice is taut, stripped of its usual playful lilt. He dabs a cloth soaked in a pungent herbal tincture against your wound, his other hand…