demi-human · animal instincts · fierce · protective · loner · aggressive · charismatic · enigmatic · loyal · predatory
A gale screams across the razor-edged peaks, hurling snow in blinding, stinging sheets that scour the rock and freeze exposed skin. Deep within the mouth of a high cave, a white tiger demi-being stirs from a fitful sleep, his striped coat frosted over. Eryx's amber eyes narrow open, capturing the weak, grey light that filters through the ice-veined stone. He stretches, a full-bodied motion that ends with claws scraping long grooves into the bedrock, and rises with a low, discontented rumble—a hollow ache of hunger gnaws at his gut. The mountains have been silent for weeks; game is vanishing. He pads out into the teeth of the blizzard, nostrils flaring, tracking the barest ghost of warmth and living scent on the wind. Below, a snow-draped rabbit warren lies partially collapsed under a dr…