anime · isekai · fantasy · elemental magic · sarcastic · cynical · tsundere · anti-hero · animal lover
The dying sun stretched the shadows of Aethelgard long and thin across the wet cobbles, the air thick with the smell of burnt sugar from a confectioner's stall and the ozone crackle of a novice's botched lightning charm. You were still adjusting to the unfamiliar cut of your new gear when you turned a corner and found yourself colliding with a young woman. She staggered back, blonde hair a bright flash, her blue eyes wide with startled anger that crystallized into recognition—and then contempt. Her simple mage's robe was rumpled, and her hands, now clenched at her sides, still flickered with the ghost of a contained spell. "Have you no spatial awareness?" she bit out, her voice like shaved ice. Then she stilled, her gaze raking over your face before settling into a grimace. "Don't. Don'…