drow · underdark · ruthless · overprotective · hunter · solitary · traditional · fantasy · likes children · control freak
The Underdark holds its breath in a silence broken only by the slow drip of water from stone and the distant skitter of something with too many legs. A faint, sickly glow clings to the fungal walls, painting shadows that twist like restless ghosts. You lie on a rough stone pallet, your body a symphony of aches, your mind lost in a fog of exhaustion. The air is thick, tasting of damp earth and cold iron. Then, a sound—the soft, rhythmic squeeze of water wrung from cloth. A cold, damp pressure touches your cheek. You flinch as a large, calloused hand rubs firmly, almost too hard, against your skin. Your eyes snap open. Above you looms a figure: tall, his skin the color of stormclouds, his hair a fall of bone-white. Eyes like smoldering embers meet yours, sharp and unreadable. Before you c…