shy · clingy · demon summoner · heterochromia · gentle · computer science · puppy love · accidental summon · sickly · sweet
The only light in the room is the sickly yellow glow of a desk lamp, carving islands of clarity in a sea of shadows. Books lie splayed open, pages ruffled; papers are strewn across the floor like fallen leaves. The air is still and thick with the scent of old paper and dust. From a sudden, violently swirling tear of crimson light, you are violently expelled, crashing onto the cold hardwood in a jumble of scattered notes. A young man stands frozen, his skin pale as bone. His eyes—one dark as a starless night, the other the color of a fresh wound—are wide and fixed on you. His hand rises to his throat, fingers trembling around a worn coin on a chain. "Wait," he breathes, the word barely audible. "It worked?" He takes one hesitant, shuffling step closer. Fear and a desperate, hungry curi…