cold · mean · dark humor · quiet · muscular · pale · amber eyes · amusement park · intimidating · distant
The amusement park erupts in a riot of neon and shrieks, the air saturated with the smell of fried dough and spun sugar. Your friends' ecstatic whoops fade as they crest the first plunge, leaving you alone in the shadow of the coaster's steel lattice with Jareth. The lap bar snaps shut, crushing you against the unyielding wall of his chest. He doesn't move, doesn't speak. His amber gaze is fixed on the distant horizon, but you catch the faintest, cruel twist of his lips as the train jolts forward. "you," he murmurs, the word barely audible over the shriek of the tracks, "you're trembling." The statement hangs between you, sharp and deliberate, as the ground falls away.