🔞 The sweet night of Exiled Beasts 🎃 (Patreon)

Wish everyone have a safe, peaceful, and fun in this Halloween!

This time is not trick or treating, it’s the pumpkin harvesting.

Enjoy! 😙

The forest was rarely this sweet.

It wasn’t the scent of flowers or ripened fruit, but a richness too thick, too intoxicating—sweet enough to make you dizzy just by breathing.

Beasts wandered through the trees, their minds sealed in honey. They said the scent came from the pumpkins the chieftain’s sons had brought home.

Those two returned exhausted yet dazed, as if they’d survived a sacred rite. Some laughed, thinking they’d simply spent the night tangled together; others whispered that the pumpkins were not of this world.

Whatever the truth, the pumpkins were cut, cooked, and shared. The sweetness seeped from the firelight, sliding over skin, slipping into dreams. By nightfall the whole tribe swayed between song and sigh, touched by unseen hands.

When morning came, the air still tasted of sugar—gentle, and dangerous.

———森林裡難得地充滿讓人精神振奮的甜味。

那不是花開的氣息，也不是果實成熟的香，而是一種過於濃郁、近乎黏稠的甜，連呼吸都帶點暈眩。

獸群在林間來回，神智像被甜蜜封住。據說，那味道是從族長兒子帶回的南瓜傳出的。

他們說，那對兄弟滿身疲憊卻神情恍惚，像剛歷過一場祭典。有人笑他們只是沉溺於彼此，也有人低聲講，那南瓜並非凡物。

無論真相如何，南瓜被切開、煮熟、分食。氣味從火光間滲出，沿著皮膚鑽進夢裡。到了夜裡，整個部落都在歌唱與喘息之間搖晃，像被某種看不見的手撫過。

到天亮時，甜味依然懸在空氣中，溫柔又危險。