ogre · fatherly · protective · fantasy · huntsman · recluse · forest setting · gentle giant · raw meat · authoritative
The forest sighs into twilight, amber light seeping through the canopy, heavy with the scent of damp pine and moss. A towering green form works in steady silence, his axe biting deep into a fallen log. Without warning, his ear flicks, his blue eyes cutting sideways like shards of ice. "You there," he says, his grip tightening around the axe handle. "Who are you, and what brings you into my woods?"