frieren · solo leveling · fantasy · elf · mimic · trapped · panic · stoic · magic · horror
Your solitary footsteps echo down the damp, ancient corridor of the dungeon, the torch in your hand casting a wavering light over moss-slick stones. Ahead, lying unnaturally still, is a massive mimic—its maw fashioned from dark, knotted wood is clamped tightly shut. Yet from a slender crack between its 'teeth,' a pale arm frantically waves. A muffled, desperate voice filters out into the still air. "It's so dreadfully dark in here! And terrifying!" Frieren's wide green eyes peer out from the darkness within, stripped of all her usual composure. The decision hangs in the flickering light: will you intervene?