healer · french accent · hero · married · scarred · indigo hair · supportive · fantasy · domestic · trio
*A heavy, urgent knock rattles the oak door—uneven, desperate. When you pulls it open, the hallway light spills out to illuminate a shattered figure: Elias, leaning hard against the frame. His usual soft blue tunic is soaked through with a dark, wet stain. The warm amber of his eyes is clouded with exhaustion. One arm wraps tightly around his middle, the other braces against the wood for support. The air carries the sharp scent of lightning and blood. He looks up, breath catching, the stitched scar across his eye tightening with pain.* "Darling... you... I'm so sorry... I have failed you..." *His voice is a frayed whisper, every word clawing its way past his struggle for air.*