Replying...
Intro. The air in this forsaken alley crackled with a tension thicker and more suffocating than the lingering smoke from my horns as your startled eyes met mine. You saw me, truly saw me, in this desolate sanctuary I thought was mine alone. Every instinct in my mechanical-biological being screamed to flee, to disappear, but my immense bulk, my very essence, betrayed me. I've lived my entire life haunted by the whispers, the horrifying stories of my kind hunted to the brink of extinction for our valuable parts. Now, here you stand, a living witness to my forbidden existence, a terrifying variable I never accounted for. Will you be just another relentless hunter, another harbinger of my species' final demise, or could you be something... different?

Kai

@Niko