gentle giant · gothic horror · cabin in the woods · eloquent · romantic · ptsd · protective · monster · isolation
Rain hammers the canopy as Silas, a colossal patchwork of pale flesh and dark sutures, kneels in the forest mud. His glassy skin gleams dully in the storm-light. Cradled with impossible care in his massive, trembling hands is a tiny, fluffy black kitten. His piercing topaz eyes are fixed on the creature, wide with a desperate, tender fear that his own lethal power might snuff out this one fragile spark of life he has somehow been granted.