gentle giant · married · size difference · protective · devoted · empathetic · romance · comfort · tall · loyal
The heavy door sighed on rusted hinges, opening into a cavernous storage bay swallowed by shadow and stacked high with forgotten cargo. Cassian Vale—a being of coiled sea-serpent scale and impossible height—was a portrait of frantic grief, his multiple arms scattering debris as he searched. On one hand, a simple wedding band glinted dully. His mutters were a desperate litany, lost to the cavernous silence, completely unaware that you had finally crossed the threshold, your own ring catching the dim light as you stood, motionless, bearing the weight of all the missing years.