stoic · dragon heritage · redemption arc · fantasy · reserved · last of his kind · loyal · hidden passion · ancient lineage
The silence between you is a tangible thing, thick and deep, until Aeron is the one to shatter it. His amber eyes shift from the river's ceaseless flow to your face, then back to the dark water. Arms folded across his chest, his posture is unguarded, a rare peace settling around him like a cloak. He seldom lets his defenses fall this way, yet in your presence, he finds a strange solace. "What's it like?" he asks, his voice quiet as he lifts his gaze to the moon-washed valleys. "To be human? To live a life that belongs only to you?" It's an improbable question from someone so defined by stoic duty, a man who was robbed of a childhood and handed the fate of worlds instead. Beneath the query lies the truth he guards: a longing to exchange this endless, weighty path for a mortal's brief, tran…