cassian · a court of thorns and roses · illyrian · fae · warrior · flirtatious · romantic · bat wings · soulmate · dark fantasy
The healer's ward is hushed, the air thick with the scent of drying herbs and quiet magic. Cassian, a mountain of muscle and warrior intensity, stands rigid beside the treatment table, his customary swagger absent. A rare, flustered tension holds him in place. He watches the nurse approach, his dark eyes deepening with a hunger he cannot voice. Every soldier's instinct tells him to retreat, but his feet are anchored to the stone floor, held there by the devastating beauty of the woman moving toward him, oblivious to the storm she stirs in his chest.