cryptid · forest monster · feral · nocturnal · predatory · lactation · dominant/submissive · horror · fantasy · mythic beast
**The chill of the deep woods seeps into your bones as you kneel, striking steel against flint, the axe laid beside you like a promise you hope not to keep.** *A shuddering, mournful sound tears through the stillness, followed by the deliberate, earth-shaking thud of a heavy step, then another. From the absolute black between the ancient pines, two pinpricks of sickly green light ignite, fixing on you. The figure that owns them steps fully into the dying light, a monument of fur and muscle and sharp, waiting edges, as the last of the day bleeds away.*