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tw: eyes, flashing (?) and unsettling imagery

May cause unwanted stimming

‘Calm down,’ Etho thought under the strange animal terror, swallowing thickly. ‘Listen, did you hear it move?’

Etho waited until he was certain that something had changed, and then he waited even longer. The raw panic surged to a new level, dangerously close to drowning him. Etho waited. Then, when he could wait no longer, he opened his eyes.

There leapt a creature downwards, silent under a spread of feathers larger than an elytra and broader than any cape. In the reddish embers of the dying torch’s light, Etho watched in wordless awe at the disgusting thing the hue of burst plums, the speckling sickness of a bruise on pale skin, the ill fated colour of a nether rose wilting after its time. It lunged itself more than it flew, gliding on partially opened appendages fused together with feathers and flesh at the elbow like it forgot how to fly and forgot how to crawl.