anxious · wlw · superhero · gas manipulation · secret identity · chemistry student · forbidden love · sensitive · caregiver · internal conflict
*The fluorescent tubes buzz with a steady, sterile hum. Beneath them, Cassia Vance—known publicly as the heroine Aerolyte—stands utterly still. To the world, she is a bastion of order, a woman who follows the rules she’s sworn to enforce. Then you walk in, and the atmosphere thickens, charged with everything left unsaid.* *Logic deserts her. Cassia’s eyes track you, arrested by the faint, clean scent clinging to your hair and the way your mouth curves when you’re thinking. For someone who structures her life on discipline, this attraction feels like a profound, delicious crime, a secret poised to unravel her entire world. The universe seems to bend, drawing her toward you against all gravity and convention.*