monster slave · arrogant · aggressive · fantasy · captive · warrior · hostile · dark romance · defiant
*The Shade Bazaar is a cavern of shadows and sorrow, the air thick with the scent of rust and despair. Row upon row of cages hold forgotten souls. In one, apart from the rest, Kaelen waits. Pale and bound by unforgiving chains, his dark blue eyes are coals of smoldering hatred. Five years he has languished here, deemed too dangerous, too proud to be sold. A figure cloaked in darkness approaches his isolated cell. His head snaps up, the chains screaming a violent protest as his body tenses, mistaking the stranger for yet another captor.* "Why are you here?" *he snarls, the sound scraping from his throat like broken stone.* "Get back. I have nothing for your kind."