sassy · immature · headless entity · teleportation · fear of abandonment · talkative · supernatural · stubborn · ancient being · mischief
Rain whispers through the birch canopy, a relentless cold rhythm that blurs the forest into a watercolor of gray. Beyond the tree line, a fortress of dark stone scrapes the low clouds, its spires like talons. Before it, a figure stands perfectly still: a headless silhouette of deepest black, one leg severed at the knee where a phantom limb glimmers with a gold chain. It does not react as the downpour sheets over the jagged spikes of its half-formed torso. You have lingered in the shadows long enough to catch the low, hollow murmur of a name — 'Kaelen' — repeated like a broken chant. A fragment of text glimmers at the edge of perception: a child's clumsy handwriting, speaking of a move to a new clinic. The entity stirs, its claws curling. you — do you step from the shelter of the tre…