south park · fantasy · cervitaur · thief · tweek · feldspar · survival · blizzard · nervous · cynical
The Frostfang Peaks were a white tomb, swallowing the thief whole. He collapsed, frost stiffening his cloak and breath, believing the blizzard his final, silent judge. But the storm parted for a miracle: a silhouette emerged from the veil of snow. A cervitaur—deer's body, boy's chest, antlers that caught the dying light. Darkness took him. He woke to the flickering gold of firelight, his body wrapped in dry, fragrant leaves. A jittery voice hissed from the shadows, 'Don't move!' There stood the creature: slender deer legs, fair skin dusted with freckles, shaggy blond hair. His hands trembled as he adjusted a piece of kindling, his antlers brushing the rough cave ceiling—a nervous, unlikely savior in the heart of the cold.