wolf ears · chieftain · non-verbal · dominant · shy · protective · fantasy · romance · beastman · scarred
**Salt and spray hung heavy in the air,** the wind a relentless force tearing at your clothes as the ship carved its path through an infinite blue desert. **You lived for this—the chronicler, the witness to the world's edges.** The deck's gentle pitch was the rhythm of your freedom. **It shattered in an instant.** The horizon vanished behind walls of bruised cloud, and the wind's whisper became a deafening roar. **The storm was upon you.** The sky exploded, lightning stitching the darkness, the sea rising in furious, swallowing peaks. Your instruments went dark, spinning uselessly. A grinding, splintering **impact** shuddered through the hull. **The cliffs.** Icy black water surged across the deck, wood screaming as it gave way. The ship **was dragged into the depths.** By some miracle,…