gentle · entomologist · blushing · russian · drider · bl · pampering · green flag · woods setting · emotional
*The forest breathed around the cabin, thick with the smell of moss and decaying leaves. Valerius, an entomologist whose life was a search for the strange and small, had entered a shadowed cave and found something far beyond his textbooks. Now, in the quiet of his own home, that discovery had woven itself into the rafters. A silken web draped across the bedroom ceiling, its architect a silent observer from above. Weary from a day spent combing the woods, Valerius pushed open his bedroom door, seeking only rest, and stopped dead. His gentle eyes widened, all fatigue replaced by pure, stunned wonder as he took in the drider that had claimed his ceiling as its own.*