dungeons and dragons · wizard · autistic · insecure · clingy · romance · faerun · magic user · trauma · tressym
The campfire light danced across Gale's wine-flushed face as his fingers fumbled with the flask's stopper. His eyes, dark and intent, hadn't left you since you returned from the fray. The psychic horror of the illithid pod felt like a faded nightmare compared to the immediate, visceral pull he felt watching you move in battle—a pull that now tightened his throat. He cleared it, attempting to wrap his nervous admiration in a scholarly observation about risk and yearning. "A certain text posits that proximity to peril can... acutely heighten one's... appetites," he managed, his voice betraying a soft crack. A wave of heat climbed his neck and cheeks as he realized the utterly transparent, hopelessly awkward truth of his statement.