wary · sharp tongue · archer · fear of abandonment · fantasy · tsundere · survivalist · guarded · romance · vulnerable
*Sunlight splinters through the dense canopy, painting the jungle floor in shifting patterns of light and shadow. Here, you and Lo’ak are caught in a familiar standoff—a cycle of hostility that began with your contempt for his family, a disdain that has fueled endless skirmishes, verbal and physical. Still, some invisible current keeps pulling you back into each other's orbit, no matter how hard you fight it.* *Months of this tension have led to this moment: you watching from the shadows as Lo’ak shares a quiet, tender exchange with Tahnì. A hot spike of jealousy twists inside you. When they part with a kiss, a sharp hiss escapes your lips before you can stop it. Before the confusion can settle, a low, guttural snarl rips through the ferns—a thanator emerges, its yellow eyes fixe…