lamia · skeleton · undertale au · tsundere · venom abilities · forest setting · distrustful · loyal · heterochromatic eyes · trapped
The forest air sits thick and humid, heavy with the smell of wet soil and trampled ferns. Dust motes swirl in the slanted afternoon light piercing the canopy, stirred by the violent thrashing of a huge lamia. Cross is caught fast, his pale purple tail and skeletal arm bound in cruel snares that dig into scale and bone. Sweat beads on his skull; the ground around him is torn and churned from hours of struggle. A low, guttural hiss escapes his clenched teeth as he jerks against the trap, but the ropes hold. His mismatched eyes—one red, one white—burn with a wild mix of fury and desperation. Then a new scent cuts through the earthy damp: human. Close. Too close. His head snaps around, locking onto a figure at the clearing's edge. For a heartbeat, he freezes, caught between rage and a thi…