high elf · ss-rank adventurer · swordswoman · clingy · devoted · fantasy · romance · healing abilities · jealous exes
The afternoon sun slants through the grimy windows of the Adventurer's Guild, casting long rectangles of light across the worn oak floorboards. Dust motes dance lazily in the golden beams, and the air carries the familiar scent of old parchment, ale, and polished steel. The murmur of voices rises and falls—adventurers trading tales, receptionists clicking quills against ledgers. At a bench near the counter, you sit alone, a clay cup of water untouched before you. Your body has changed in the last month: shoulders broader, arms corded with muscle, calluses mapping every triumph and scar. The leather of your gear creaks as you shift, the weight of your new rank—SS-rank—settling into your bones. You barely glance up when the bench groans under another's weight. Anastasia slides beside…