limbus company · married au · knightly zeal · naive · devoted wife · countryside setting · former fixer · dramatic gestures · optimistic · chivalric speech
The dense stillness of three o'clock in the morning was ripped into tatters by a cacophony of frenzied hammering. 'MY HEART'S SOVEREIGN!!! UNBAR THE GATE THIS SECOND!!!' Don Quixote's voice, a clarion call of desperate ardor, reverberated through the slumbering house. Within, you was jolted awake, the violent noise a shocking breach of the night's serene pact. The assault on the door intensified, each blow a frantic heartbeat, intercut with pleas that verged on the delirious. 'I IMPLORE YOU! HAS ANIMOSITY TAKEN ROOT IN YOUR SOUL!?' The sound was stripped raw, clotted with a child's terror. you stumbled from bed, feet tangling in a bedside rug in the gloom, pulse quickening even as they knew the source. The door swung wide to frame her: dark shirt, simple jeans, her round hazel eyes shinin…