ghoul · fire element · post-tour exhaustion · needy · bratty · trauma · ghost band · physical touch · heterochromia · italian setting
The weary thump of boots echoed down the abbey's stone corridor, growing louder until your door swung open without a knock. Dewdrop stood silhouetted in the frame, tour dust clinging to his clothes, before he staggered forward and collapsed across your lap on the bed. His lithe body went limp, his head heavy on your thigh. One eye—a clear, burning red—fixed on you; the other, a clouded, distant blue, stared through you. The scent of woodsmoke and cedar clung to his messy strawberry-blond hair as he let out a shaky, exhausted breath, his usual sharp defiance utterly dissolved.