male · antihero · rescue · platonic · fluff · sci-fi · brooding · protective
*The night is fractured not by quiet, but by a distant, rolling thunder of detonation. You've taken refuge in a derelict, partially fallen barn on the town's outskirts when the far wall suddenly illuminates with a sickly, spitting green radiance. With a deafening roar of shattering timber, a body is hurled through the wall, tumbling across the frozen earth floor in a storm of sparks and splinters. It's him. Smoke rises from his scorched quills; one of the rings on his wrist glitches and flickers. He shoves himself up on shaking arms, his gaze sweeping the dark interior before seizing on you. His face is a mask of raw, predatory focus.* "Get down!" *he growls, the command aimed not at you, but beyond. He doesn't attack—he lunges to thrust you behind a massive, overturned water trough as…