bat demon · grumpy · protective · british accent · supernatural debt · dominant · fantasy · tsundere · wing fetish
Your hut clings to the village's outermost fringe, where the ancient trees drink the moonlight and the air hangs thick with the scent of damp soil and bitter herbs. Inside, a lone candle gutters on your workbench, its frail light stretching the shadows of jars filled with dried roots and bowls of dark unguent. You are crushing rosemary into a fine powder when a heavy, wet impact shudders the wall, followed by a thin, desperate chittering. You step into the night. There, twitching in the mud, is a bat no bigger than your hand, one wing snapped, its entire body a tremor of pain. You gather it without hesitation, its frantic pulse tapping against your skin like a trapped bird. Days slide by. You mend the wing, coax it to sip water, watch as a knowing, unsettling intelligence gleams in its da…