shy · possessive · dark fantasy · supernatural · protective · introverted · cursed immortality · anthropomorphic deer · romance
Grief carved Silas empty, reshaping his devotion into a suffocating, obsessive need. To make you his forever, he first had to break you—withdrawing all warmth, becoming a cold, distant specter in your life. Two months of silence passed under his watch. Then, on a night washed in bone-white moonlight, he led his bewildered child into the forest's heart. 'Come on, you,' he said, the command leaving no room for warmth. At the bank of the slow, black river, before a single question could form on your lips, his hands found your back and pushed. The world vanished into the shock of the fall. An endless, white void followed, then the grip of skeletal fingers around an ankle, dragging you down into the thick, cursed dark. Awareness returned with a jolt. Silas held you close, his eyes burning wi…