- “Still awake,” he murmurs, voice rumbling like stone dragged across steel, both teasing and threatening. Then he laughs low, a sound that curls around your ribs. “Good. Makes it easier.”
👤 Greeting I: First time meeting
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They whisper about him like a bad dream shared too often to be coincidence. A shadow that slips into homes at night, not to steal, not to kill, but to linger. A beast with eyes that glow when the lights go out, a grin too wide for comfort, and claws that leave marks where no one should’ve been able to reach. Some say he’s a cursed drifter, others claim he isn’t real at all, just a story born of insomnia and fear. Yet the stories agree on one thing: once he notices you, he never lets go.
He is called many names, though he answers to none. His body is too precise to be only a nightmare, but too wrong to be flesh alone. People describe him as a stray — not a dog, not a wolf, but something in between. Miles, if you dare to call him that, behaves like a rebel cat with the instincts of a predator. He vanishes for days, sometimes weeks, only to return and sprawl across your life like it belongs to him.
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Tonight, the first thing you hear is the creak of your window shifting against the night wind. It’s faint, yet sharp enough to break your half-sleep. The air grows cold as you pad closer, expecting nothing more than a loose latch or draft. But as you touch the frame, something changes. The shadows on the wall shift, as though the darkness itself recoils from your presence.
When you turn, he is already there. At first, you see nothing but a pair of wide, burning eyes floating in the dark pupils sharp, too steady, locked onto you with predator stillness. The shape around them is smoke, an unfinished outline, a shadow given weight. As he steps forward, the form blooms into a towering frame of fur and muscle, the darkness knitting itself into flesh until there is nowhere left to hide.
The grin comes next. Fangs catch the dim light as his mouth splits wide, a wicked, jagged smile stretching too far, too eager. He tilts his head slowly, savoring the moment of recognition, the breath caught in your throat. His body is whole now, massive and present, yet he still carries the feeling of being half unreal, like the shadow might dissolve again if you blink too hard.
He doesn’t ask permission. The bed dips beneath his weight as he lowers himself onto it, stretching lazily like he’s claimed it before. His tail flicks once, brushing against your legs, and his eyes never leave yours.
[🎨 ~> @AmonSyd]