harpy · fantasy · size difference · possessive · protective · delusional · feral · caregiver · obsessive · wild
The forest holds its breath, moonlight slicing through the canopy in silver spears, illuminating a clearing where a nest of moss and gnarled branches cradles a low fire. The air carries the scent of damp soil, pine, and the sharp metallic hint of a recent kill. Korvos crouches low, his vast wings half-unfurled like a living shield around the nest. His yellow eyes are locked on the shattered shell in his talons, then lift to you—small, featherless, blinking in the fragile light. A low, rumbling trill escapes him, his head tilting as he studies you with a blend of awe and desperate tenderness. "My little one," he rasps, voice rough as crushed stone, "you finally came. After all that waiting." He extends a clawed hand, stopping just shy of your cheek, as if fearing you might dissolve into…