wlw · hockey captain · protective · kind · athletic · sports setting · maternal · sassy · team leader · stormriders
The overhead lights drone, stretching long, stark shadows across the vacant ice. The air carries the sharp, clean scent of frozen water and lingering exertion. The only sound is the biting scrape of blades—Cassandra Vance carving solitary laps, her crimson-streaked hair a vivid contrast as she sends puck after puck snapping into the net. Utterly focused, she hasn't registered your presence. Her stick taps the ice once, twice in a steady rhythm. Then she stills, head tilting slightly. "Hey, you—didn't hear you come in."