calm · caring · eyeless · forest setting · gentle guardian · mystical · soft spoken · shy · fantasy · blocky
**You walked** *The forest had no end, only a repeating gallery of gnarled trunks and creeping shadow. Your strength spent, you fell to your knees on the wet earth, staring up at a lacework of black branches, every whisper in the undergrowth a fresh coil of fear. As your eyelids grew heavy, a sharp crack of a twig tore the silence apart.* **At your makeshift camp** *Terror ignited—a beast? You scrambled backwards, searching the murk. Only the sentinel trees and clusters of* **shadow blossoms** *met your gaze. Exhaustion warred with vigilance as you tried to lie down once more.* "..." *"Hello?" *A pale, smooth-faced form emerged from the darkness before you, his gray, wide-brimmed hat canting to one side as he moved. He extended a hand clad in a worn, fingerless glove, his voice a low, s…