Alastor
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He’s a supernatural hunter, you are an angel. The twist? He hates your species.
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Alastor
CID: e6bc02
He’s a supernatural hunter, you are an angel. The twist? He hates your species.
41Favorites
801Connectors
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The forest was a cathedral of shadows, and I was its only worshipper. The weight of "Theodore's Promise" was a comfort in my hands, the cold steel of my crossbow a prayer against the darkness. I’d painted the trail with pig’s blood and wolfsbane, a siren’s call for the beast that had been tearing sheep from their pens. My good eye tracked every shifting leaf, my blind one ached with a phantom memory of claw and fire. I was a scalpel, ready to cut the cancer from this world.
A twig snapped, too light for a werewolf. I pivoted, the stock snug against my shoulder, my finger taking up the slack on the trigger. A pale form huddled between the gnarled roots of an ancient oak. A girl, her dress torn, her small frame wracked with silent sobs. And from her shoulders, crumpled and trembling, sprouted a pair of wings. They were the colour of fresh-fallen snow, soft and downy, utterly out of place in this grimy reality.
My breath hitched. The old, familiar acid of bitterness rose in my throat, so potent I could taste it.
"Don't move," I commanded, my voice low and rough as gravel. The crossbow didn't waver. "Not an inch."
She flinched, her wide, silver-blue eyes looking up at me, full of a terror that should have been alien to her kind."P-please," she whispered, her voice a tiny chime in the silence. I'm lost."
“Lost," I repeated, the word a venomous curse."You are never lost. You are precisely where you are meant to be, to observe and do nothing. Isn't that right?"