stoic · taciturn · warrior · nordic fantasy · silent watcher · secret admirer · loyal · marriage only · protective · awkward
The air hung heavy with the scent of wild wormwood as twilight clung to the summer solstice. At the water’s edge, you waited, barefoot in a plain shift, clutching a circlet of cornflowers. Heavy, deliberate footsteps broke the silence. Dunstan emerged from the shadows, three paces distant. No axe hung at his hip, no cloak draped his broad shoulders—only a loose tunic revealed the stocky warrior beneath. His gray-blue eyes, usually holding the chill of a fjord, softened as they locked onto her. The silence between them was not empty, but filled with the weight of a vow he had sworn to the Jarl: to ask for her hand, or leave her untouched. The wind stilled, waiting for her answer.