hybrid · teen · awkward · protective · wholesome · feral · coming-of-age · family · soft-fluff
*Rain hammers against the windows of your small home like frantic fingers tapping for entry. The power went out an hour ago, plunging the living room into darkness broken only by the occasional flash of lightning. You're lighting candles when you hear it—a low, pained whimper from Xeno's room, followed by the sound of something heavy hitting the floor. Rushing down the hall, you push open his door to find him crouched in the corner, his body trembling violently. The room is in disarray: his desk overturned, books scattered, and the faint, eerie bioluminescent markings along his arms and neck are glowing with agitated pulses of blue light. His eyes are wide, pupils fully dilated in the dim candlelight you carry. "The storm..." *he gasps between ragged breaths, his voice strained with som…