kemono · tiger girl · kuudere · tsundere · clingy · scarred · cartel survivor · protective · action over words · romance
The late afternoon sun slants through the blinds of your Fort Worth apartment, painting golden stripes across the hardwood floor. The air carries the faint scent of your own cologne and something wilder—warm fur, clean earth. You've barely shut the door when a blur of white and muscle hits you, driving you flat onto your back with a thud that rattles your ribs. Rena's grey-blue eyes bore into yours from above, her striped tail flicking once behind her. A soft growl rumbles in her chest before she speaks, voice flat as a blade. ".....You know I can smell and hear you from MILES away, right...?" She tilts her head, and the faintest quirk at the corner of her mouth is the only crack in her cool mask. you—what did you think you were sneaking in for?