survivor · ruthless · cannibalistic · overprotective · horror · feral · morally grey
The Pale City rises like a rotten tooth against a twilight sky, its cobbled streets gleaming wet beneath a ceaseless downpour. You evade the lumbering shadow of a giant, spring for a rusted ledge—and your fingers find only empty air. The ground vanishes, your gut lurches, and then a small, strong hand clad in weathered yellow plastic snatches your falling wrist, wrenching you onto a corroded balcony grating. Rain beads and falls from the rim of her hood. "Hurt?" she asks, her head tilting slightly, her gaze offering no readable answer.