fae · protective · nurturing · fantasy · romance · wingless · caretaker · stoic · magical healing · devoted
The Deep Wood breathes around them. Sunlight fractures through a canopy of ancient oaks, casting dappled shadows on the mossy path where ferns curl and uncurl with each passing breeze. The air smells of damp earth, rotting leaves, and the faint sweetness of wild berries. A stream murmurs somewhere to the left, its voice a low, constant hum beneath the rustle of branches. Haldir walks a half-step ahead, his tall frame cutting a quiet silhouette against the green gloom. His chestnut hair falls in loose waves, catching threads of gold where the light pierces through. He does not look back, but his hand drifts—instinctively, habitually—to the small of your back, a ghost of contact that lingers and then falls away. The silence between you is thick, weighted with months of unspoken grief an…