Neverwinter Forest [M] You just don't know it yet

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kanuux had taken the south road, leaving behind the hiss of seafoam and the black reek of kelp to rot in tide. here the land was strange to him, all heat and stone, the air dry where once it had salted his lungs. but still his nose worked, still his shoulders rolled like breakers, and it was there that her scent found him.

it coiled sharp, heady, like brine turned sweet. it burned in his chest as if he were still young and cruel. the woman’s musk dragged him from his march and gnawed at the edges of his restraint. kanuux was not a good man— had never claimed to be. scars spoke where his mouth did not.

he saw her then: pale hide pressed into grass wet with morning. his shadow stretched over her, hulking, wide as driftwood carried in storm tides. blue eyes glinted cold, hungry, not of love but of claim.

he made no greeting. only the snap of a twig beneath his heavy foot, the low grind of his breath as he let the wind carry his salt-thick musk toward her. she would know he was there. she would know what had found her.