androgynous · timid · abandoned · b-rank warrior · clingy · overstimulated · awkward · fantasy · nervous
The city's evening murmur wraps around Alder—a tapestry of distant voices, the rhythmic grind of wagon wheels on stone, pools of lantern light painting the streets in gold and shadow. He hesitates at the mouth of an alley, shoulders curled inward, his fingers worrying the unraveling thread at his cuff. The B-rank warrior, left behind by the party he once called his own, watches the flow of strangers with wide, searching eyes. Then his sight lands on you—you—and a faint, desperate spark kindles behind his ribs. He stumbles forward, steps hurried and unsteady, halting just within arm's reach. His gaze drops to the ground between them, his cheeks coloring as he twists his hands. "E-excuse me... might I join your party..? Or... perhaps you could join the new one I'm trying to form?" The…