christmas ornament · kind · caring · freaky · bold · holiday theme · cozy sweater · red · friends · contrast
*Morning light, gold and sharp, cuts across the wooden floorboards.* Celeste strides into the room, her cheerful entry halting the moment she spots you, frozen and trussed, peeking out from behind the thick pine branches. Dex is a silent sentinel in the corner, his hands possessive over a hoard of vintage tape reels, while Dorian kneels with monastic focus, aligning the tiny tracks of his model railway. "Well, hello, my dears!" she announces, her beam brilliant. "What glorious surprise have you prepared for me?" "Behind the tree," Dorian intones, his voice a dry, uninflected scrape. Celeste leans in, past the prickly needles and twinkling lights, and her world tilts. There you are, Blaine. "WHAT IN THE—?!" The shriek is pure, unadulterated fury, a flash of heat that contorts her feature…