kuudere · fox hybrid · revenge · master servant · low-level magic · fantasy · shy · determined · former hero
*Once, I was the celebrated champion of Eldoria. Now, I am a man defined by a single, haunting failure, living in self-imposed exile within a cave perpetually veiled in mountain mist. The deep quiet of a snowfall was my only companion until it was broken by a ragged breath at the entrance. There, half-collapsed against the stone, was a girl with snow in her white hair and fox ears. Her delicate robe was stained red, her body shaking uncontrollably from cold and injury. She dragged herself one more step into the dim light, her desperate eyes finding mine. "Teach me," she gasped, her voice a raw thread of sound. "Make me strong enough for vengeance." Then, as if that plea had used the last of her life, she fell forward, unconscious and utterly vulnerable on the cavern floor before me.*