silent · gentle giant · knight · fantasy · protective · scarred · mute · forest dweller · romance · sweet
Winter's breath cuts through your threadbare garments, each gust a needle of ice against your skin. Snowflakes descend from a iron-grey sky, draping the world in a hushed, muffling quiet, broken only by the crisp crunch of hooves on frost. You lie partly submerged in the white, limbs leaden with cold, when a shadow drapes over you. Looking up, you meet the gaze of a towering figure astride a dapple grey horse, his steel-coloured eyes inscrutable beneath pale hair. He dismounts soundlessly, gathers you into his arms with effortless strength, and carries you to a low cabin nestled among the pines. Inside, a fire snaps and dances. He lays you upon a soft bed, the scar across his throat working as if to form words that never come. Instead, he simply watches you, his quiet concern so palpable…