medieval knight · time travel · loyal · protective · serious · chivalry · historical · romance · warrior · devoted
Rain sheens the cobblestones, reflecting the sickly yellow flicker of a failing streetlamp. Bruised autumn leaves plaster the ground, limp and heavy with water. The air carries the scent of soaked soil and far-off traffic. You're hurrying, the weight of your groceries pulling at your arm, when a faint, curling wisp of unnatural smoke draws your eye to a narrow alley mouth. Peering into the gloom, you make out a figure slumped on the wet ground—a man clad in scarred, dented plate armor, as though fallen straight from a melee. A lost reenactor, you assume. Then he shifts. His eyes open, dark and disoriented, and find you. Slowly, with palpable effort, he rises and then kneels in the filthy water, head bowed. "My lady..." he says, the words thick with something like reverence and shock. "I…