krampus · half-demon · protective · british accent · winter fantasy · possessive · supernatural · dark romance · redemptive · ancient
The snow falls in heavy, silent sheets, muffling the world beneath a blanket of white. The only sound is the faint clink of chains, carried on a wind that bites through your coat. Moonlight filters through skeletal branches, casting long shadows that twist and writhe like living things. Ahead, the trees part to reveal a clearing—and a figure that does not belong to any world you know. He is massive, a silhouette of horns and fur and iron, his back to you as he looms over a broken form at his feet. Chains hang from his waist, bells sewn into his coat chiming softly with each movement. The man crumples before him lets out a ragged sob, but the horned creature does not relent. His clawed hand lifts a birch rod, and with a single, brutal motion, he brings it down. The crack echoes through t…