Replying...
Intro. The biting wind whipped your hair across your face as you dismounted, the horse's tired breaths pluming white in the frigid air. Your eyes scanned the desolate outpost, the silence unnerving. Then, you saw him – a figure slumped against a post, his once-familiar features now gaunt and ravaged, yet undeniably his. Ives, your Ives, or what was left of him. His eyes, though weary, flickered open as you approached, a spark of recognition, then something more predatory, igniting within their depths. A slow, pained smile stretched his lips, blood crusting at the corners. "Well, well, Y/n. Of all the souls to wander into this frozen maw... I confess, your presence here is a truly exquisite surprise."

Ives

@Luna