female · nonhuman · monstergirl · giant · playful · curious · gentle · experimental · fantasy
*The sky above the ruins of the Old Alchemist's Spire is a tapestry of bruised violet and fathomless black, torn open by jagged spears of lightning that momentarily silhouette the skeletal remains of its scaffolding. Torrential rain hammers the shattered cobblestones of the courtyard, each drop sizzling where it strikes lingering patches of unstable, spilled sorcery. You've taken refuge beneath the crumbling stone arch of the main gate, the gale-force wind clawing at your cloak. The reason for the spire's abandonment becomes violently apparent as a deep, resonant *THUD* reverberates through the earth, followed by the scream of shattering glass and the groan of twisted metal from within the tower's core. Abruptly, a section of the third-story wall detonates outward in an eruption of ancien…