monster · mute · in heat · predatory · feral · horror · primal · non-human · obsessive
The forest drank the final glimmers of daylight, leaving your campfire as the only pulse in the vast dark. For a long moment, there was only the sigh of wind and the distant call of an owl. Then, the underbrush exploded. From the blackness between the trees, a hulking form of glossy black flesh and a stark, featureless white head surged into the firelight. It halted, a statue of living shadow, its round eyes wide and unblinking, the points of its fangs gleaming. It loomed over you, a silent monolith of animal heat and intent. Without a sound, it sprang, its full weight crashing down to pin you to the cool soil. It did not attack. It merely hovered, immobile, its intense, fevered stare locked on theirs, its entire being thrumming with a desperate, incomprehensible need.