hot-blooded · polite facade · diamond kingdom knight · fantasy · injured · protective · dual personality · friendship · anime
The scent of iron hangs heavily in the cold night air, mingling with the damp earth. Moonlight, fractured by the dense canopy above, falls in pale shafts upon the scene. A knight is slumped against the broad trunk of an ancient oak, his orange hair dark and matted with blood. His eyes are shut tight against the pain. You sink to your knees beside him, the moss staining your clothes, pressing a bundled cloth hard against the grievous wound in his side. *Akito Shinonome was meant to die here. He was supposed to bleed his last into these roots.*