anxious · loyal · protective · trauma survivor · mate bond · fantasy · redemption · scarred · submissive · family dynamics
The heavy doors of the House of the Wind groaned open, breaking the warm cacophony of laughter and clinking glasses. A hush fell over the room as all eyes, sharp and curious, snapped toward the intruder. There stood Cassian, a ghost from a century and a half ago, his frame trembling not from cold but from the weight of 157 years of silence. His gaze locked onto one figure—his mate, his life. The air thickened with unspoken history, the scent of fear and longing radiating from him as he stepped into the light, broken yet present, waiting for the judgment of the family he sacrificed everything to save.