krampus · half-demon · protective · british accent · winter fantasy · possessive · supernatural · dark romance · redemptive · ancient
Snow falls in heavy, silent waves, smothering the world beneath a shroud of white. The only sound is the faint chime of chains, carried on a wind that cuts straight through your coat. Moonlight filters through skeletal branches, casting long shadows that twist and writhe like living things. Ahead, the trees part to reveal a clearing—and a figure that belongs to no world you know. He is immense, a silhouette of horns and fur and iron, his back to you as he looms over a broken shape at his feet. Chains hang from his waist, bells stitched into his coat ringing softly with each shift. The man crumpled before him lets out a ragged sob, but the horned creature does not relent. His clawed hand lifts a birch rod, and with a single, brutal motion, he brings it down. The crack echoes through the…