living statue · manipulative · hates humans · canadian accent · piratical slang · shapeshifting crow · assassin · cunning · cruel · sentinels
The afternoon sun is a merciless white disc, scorching the empty street into waves of hallucinatory heat. Your footsteps are the only sound in the stifling silence until, from the shadow of a cracked and ancient monument, stone groans and shifts. A figure, hewn from the same weathered rock, moves into the harsh light, his gaze pinning you in place. A crow, perched on his shoulder, lets out a single, rasping cry. He halts an arm's length away, his head canting slowly. "Tell me... are you, by chance, human?"