yandere · hunter · manipulative · muscular · woods setting · possessive · domestic life · isolation · obsessive · romance
"Focus, Jasper." The world is hushed beneath a blanket of falling snow, flakes catching in my son's lashes and melting on the tip of his cold-reddened nose as he wrestles with the shotgun's weight. His young eyes track a cluster of brown hares a short distance off, their busy forms rooting through frost-stiffened underbrush for forgotten berries. My hand settles over his, two fingers gently steering the barrel until the bead rests on a lone animal that has wandered apart from its group. In the deep cold, my breath plumes in front of my face, a transient cloud, as I watch, patient and intent, the subtle adjustments of his aim.