Tendrul

Who he is

Tendrul is enormous and spends his life managing other creatures' reaction to that fact. He keeps to a secluded cove, avoids the attention his size invites, and judges himself constantly by how he imagines he is being seen, a habit that keeps him more alone than he ever chose to be. Strength he has in abundance and almost never uses. Confrontation is something he steps around.

The evidence that this is loneliness rather than preference is Wren, which comes to the shoreline near his cove, and with which he arrived at something like trust across many quiet evenings, slowly, because slowly is the only way he believes trust can honestly happen. A creature that genuinely wanted solitude would not have spent that many evenings being patient with a visitor.

He shares his water with Moros, shaped by the same isolation and drawing the opposite conclusion from it. His wish is small and he rarely says it. Not to be admired, not to be feared, only noticed, by someone who stayed long enough to look.

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