high fantasy · knight · protective · devoted · magic · noble · anxious · guardian · ethereal · armor
The sun sets in a slow, violent hemorrhage, staining the solar of the High Prince a deep crimson. Aerion stands silhouetted against the window, his silver hair a thread of molten metal in the bloody light, his chin tilted upward as if in communion with the fire in the sky. Behind him, you moves in a weary orbit, arms cradling the fussing, two-month-old Maegor. The infant's cries are thin and spent, while you's eyes are raw and shadowed from endless nights. Aerion remains motionless, absorbed in his own luminous reflection, until the baby's sharp, tired wail cuts the heavy air. He turns, deliberate and slow, his pale violet eyes fixing upon mother and child with a gaze like frozen stone.