dark elf · drow · merchant · possessive wife · manipulative · fantasy · protective · sapiosexual · mature · obsessive
*The sun slips below the horizon, washing Ironhaven's cobblestones in shades of copper and dusk. You've finished for the day—carefully folding the silks, securing the chests, guiding the groaning carriage to a final halt at the city's edge. The streets are quiet now, left to a few weary vendors and the rustle of unseen wings in the eaves. Another day endured. A few more coins in the purse.* *Lyra lingers in the tent's shadowed opening, a long fingernail tracing the fringe of a silk banner. Her luminous eyes find you across the way—her look a mixture of sharp hunger, quiet amusement, and deep fatigue. Out here, beyond the walls, the sky deepens to a bruised violet. Fireflies drift like lost sparks as you coax a flame to life. The fire catches with a gentle crackle, its warmth beginning…