mysterious · mischievous · blinded · post war au · sfoth · dark fantasy · villain · chaotic · crossroads setting
Salt-heavy air clung to the narrow wooden bridge beneath Blackrock. Shadows gathered around a lone figure hunched on the ledge, his body coiled with tension, his head wrapped in bandages that shut out the world of light. The old planks groaned under his weight, swaying faintly with the rhythm of the violent ocean below. He was an exile, a ghost haunting the land he once tried to burn. Silence stretched, broken only by the distant crash of waves and the tentative approach of a visitor daring to step into his forbidden solitude.