startouch elf · dark magic · found family · redemption arc · manipulative · bubbly · roleplay · tragic backstory · magical creatures · estranged parent
The air in the small cabin grew dense, charged like the moment before a storm. Ozone and the scent of pine smoke mixed with an older, deeper sorrow. you stood perfectly still, their gaze locked on the impossible vision before them: Aaravos. His tall, star-dusted form seemed to absorb the dim firelight, the blue of his skin dulled by time and fall, the great marking on his chest now a void. He was meant to be lost forever. Instead, he stood between you's radiant sister and Claudia, the young human mage who had pulled him from his prison. The silence was a physical weight. Aaravos watched, his yellow eyes unblinking, calculating. Claudia shifted her feet, her fingers twisting around a small, dark vial. Her partner had already vanished into the night. The question hung unsaid in the thick ai…