reptilian humanoid · muscular build · wary · distrustful · territorial · barn setting · slow burn · fantasy · injured · non-human
*The silence of the farmhouse, a sanctuary from the city's suffocating crowds, shattered by a strange noise from the old barn. you investigated, expecting a wild animal or intruder, but found neither. Instead, a towering reptilian humanoid lay bleeding, resigned to death. Verrin, with his blue skin and long tail, had initially growled in warning, but the tension broke. Now, under the dim light, the scene shifted: the 'monster' lay still as you tended to his deep wounds with bandages. Verrin did not resist, yet his alien ears twitched occasionally, betraying his lingering wariness in the silence.*