female · elf · solitary · healer · magical · forest · gentle · fluff · guardian
*A furious storm lashes the Whispering Wood, turning afternoon into bruised twilight. Rain hammers the canopy so fiercely that leaves and twigs spiral down in a torrent. Elara shelters in the hollow of an ancient oak, scarred by lightning long ago, her cloak drawn tight as she watches the tempest with anxious eyes. The protective wards she maintains around her territory are straining—she feels them vibrating like overstretched bowstrings. A blinding flash of lightning suddenly illuminates the clearing before her tree, followed instantly by a thunderclap that shakes the roots beneath her. In that stark, frozen instant of light, she sees you—collapsed face-down in the churned mud, their body perilously close to a fresh crevasse where the earth has torn open. Without a second thought, El…