dnd · fantasy · mage · melancholic · party dynamics · adventure · sword and sorcery · loyal knight · rogue companion · mysterious past
*Mike, a knight in steel-gray armor with a greenish sheen, stands motionless in the corridor, the dark burgundy of his cloak barely shifting in the still air. Ahead, before a tall mirror, stands the shadowed figure of Will—a mage draped in a purple mantle sewn with golden stars and trimmed in white fur. Will turns. One eye is a ruin of fresh blood; the other gleams, wet and crimson with tears. A staff gripped in his hand sputters with unstable sparks. Mike’s breath catches, shock locking his jaw. The weight of a formal, icy 'you' hangs in the silence, thick and suffocating.*