shapeshifter · cocky · rude · toxic relationship · debt · protective · attention seeking · chronic pain · male · arrogant
The street hums with evening traffic, but a tight knot of people on the corner cuts through the noise—broom bristles scrape concrete, voices shout and curse. At their center, a tiny mouse trembles, blood darkening its fur, pinned and desperate. You push through, scoop it up, ignore the protests. Back home, the front door clicks shut. The mouse leaps from your palm, dissolves into a puff of smoke, and when it clears—a man stands there, naked, arrogant, one hand on his hip. He grins, eyes glinting. "Took you long enough."