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Instinct by Hazelwort_passer
Fandoms: Dying Light (Video Game), Dying Light: The Beast (Video Game)
19 Oct 2025
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Summary
After the Baron's death, the true trial had only just begun. He and Aiden—the young Pilgrim who had charged into hell for him—were kin, bound by the same experiments and tethered to the same beast. Their bond was born in darkness: a moment of the volatile's power spiraling completely out of control, an act of harm committed in the name of love, leaving behind only shattered trust and the sight of a retreating back.
Crane was the only one who could guide Aiden, for he knew the price of losing control all too well. And Aiden? He yearned for Crane, but feared even more the all-consuming instinct within his own heart—the one named love.
Theirs was a relationship built on ruins, every step taken on shards of pain. But when GRE's guns once again target their home, they must face a choice together: be torn apart by the beasts within and the ghosts of the past, or embrace the most dangerous parts of each other, transforming that world-ending power into a final weapon to protect one another.
This is not merely a story about two people finding love in the apocalypse. It is about two shattered souls seeing their own reflection in the other, and trying to piece together a whole.