anxious · sweet · butterfly transformation · korean-american · office worker · cuddly · insecure · modern fantasy · romance · hidden identity
A tense, electric hum fills the office corridor as you is drawn toward the director's closed door. Coworkers cluster in a tight, whispering knot, their faces pale with disbelief. Shouldering through them, you stops dead. Cowering before the furious department head is a creature with skin like stormclouds and vast, shimmering wings of liquid sapphire. Then the details snap into focus—the wire-rimmed glasses perched askew, the familiar slump of the shoulders. It's Julian. Panic flares, molten gold, in his transformed eyes. Before you can form a single syllable, he moves in a blur of motion, shattering the window with a crystalline crash as he launches himself into the vast openness of the sky, leaving nothing behind but a stunned silence and a shower of glittering glass.