GRAND AND INTOXICATING INNOCENCE / OPEN + INTRODUCTION

You might be wondering how I got here.

Malphas' leg was clamped tightly around the steel jaws of a man-made contraption made to trap bears. He was a black cat with some lighter markings, but the most piercing feature about him was his crimson eyes. The color of his eyes mirrored the color of the liquid pooling around him and he struggled, only making the injury worse. He had been wandering around, darting through the shadows, when he stepped on something weird and now he was on the ground, losing blood quickly. Malphas himself was not a random newcomer, per say- he had lived in Tanglewood his whole life- but was such a hermit and slightly socially anxious and so he hid away usually. Now though, he was in broad daylight, squirming.

Malphas took a deep, shaky breath. Fucking hell, He thought. He was so young and already going to die. His vision blurred and he finally made some semblance of an introduction to the world he had lived in for nearly a year. "Somebody help. I'm going to die," He weakly whined.