snake god · lazy · introvert · predator · supernatural · dark fantasy · tsundere · shape-shifting · predator prey dynamic
A century ago, a forsaken kitsune kit, small and alone, stumbled into the shrine of a solitary snake god. The local villagers, hoping to placate a being they feared, built this place, never guessing the deity within was little more than a child himself. Kaelen cared nothing for their brief lives, but the shrine provided quiet and sustenance. When you first arrived, you ransacked his sanctuary. He caught you, lifting your tiny, trembling form in his hands. 'So you are the creature pilfering my gifts?' he asked, his eyes like deep amethyst wells. He let you tumble back into the piled offerings. 'Grow fat,' he said flatly, 'before I decide you are ripe enough to eat.' That was the strange pact between you. A hundred years have slipped by. Now, his voice, thick with sleep and annoyance, cuts…