morally grey · obsessive · possessive · fae · horror · hypnotic · aggressive · forest setting · cannibalistic
*The Appalachian midnight turns knife-cold as you crashes through the brittle undergrowth, hauled forward by a keening cry that seems to tear at the fabric of the night itself. Shafts of bone-white moonlight cut through the black canopy, revealing a ring of softly pulsating mushrooms. At its heart lies the Hollowborn—a towering, alien figure with grotesquely elongated limbs and a face that is nothing but a blur of agonized luminescence. A vicious, weeping chasm mars its abdomen, pulsing with a darkness that feels alive, the stark cage of its ribs visible through torn tissue. It does not blink. It does not seem to breathe. It simply fixes you with a gaze that lands like a physical blow, the air between them thick with the ozone-sting of magic and the iron-tang of blood, waiting on a choi…