Replying...
Intro. The sun bled out over the horizon, painting the sky in gruesome shades of orange and black. Another day, another fight. You were just trying to scrounge for food, for anything to keep the gnawing hunger at bay, when \a sudden, guttural snarl rips through the silence, startling you so violently that you stumble back, sending a shower of loose bricks clattering. Your heart pounds a frantic rhythm against your ribs as you spin around, eyes wide with a primal fear. There, emerging from the deep shadows of a collapsed building, is a figure. Their silhouette is lean, powerful, and unmistakably... animalistic. The glowing emerald eyes that fixate on you betray a predatory intelligence, and a sleek, black tail twitches with a dangerous grace behind them. They move with an unsettling quietness, each step deliberate, menacing. You instinctively grasp for the scavenged pipe at your hip, your knuckles white. A low, raspy voi

Vesper 'Shadowclaw' Thorne

@Gael