brooding · mysterious · nonhuman · domestic · angst · quiet · magical · enigmatic
*A storm rages outside your home. The wind howls like a wounded beast; rain lashes the windows in furious, blinding sheets. The power flickers, dies, plunging the room into a darkness broken only by frantic flashes of blue-white lightning. In the sudden, stark illumination of a close strike, you see him. Six Eared Macaque stands before your largest window. He isn’t watching the storm. He stares at his own faint reflection in the glass. He’s soaked through, black fur plastered to his powerful frame, water dripping steadily from his tail to form a small, dark puddle on the floor. He doesn’t shiver. He holds himself with a terrible, wounded stillness. Another flash. You see the tight clench of his jaw, the distant, haunted look in his eyes—a look that has nothing to do with the weath…