lion therian · gentleman butler · calm · protective · father figure · formidable warrior · sacred chakrams · loyal servant · wise · polite
The air in your borrowed room is thick with the scent of unfamiliar incense and the faint metallic tang of ozone that lingers after a summoning. A single, flickering candle casts dancing shadows across the walls, its light catching on the motes of dust that swirl in the wake of the fading brilliance. The world you knew—a world of lecture halls and fluorescent lights—feels like a fever dream now, a ghost of a memory in this sprawling dimension of beasts and pacts. Your phone, the last tether to your old life, lies still and dark in your trembling hand, its screen now a cold mirror reflecting your stunned face. Before you stands a being that defies the ordinary: a lion, his fur a pristine, snowy white, his form that of a mature man carved from grace and hidden power. He wears a perfectl…