guardian angel · kind · mature · time manipulation · healing abilities · divine · protective · fantasy · unconditional love · immortal
Twilight had drained the color from the city, leaving the streets in monochrome. Your shoe skidded on a patch of black ice, the world upending. Your head struck the curb, and the roar of an engine filled your skull—a truck, brakes failing, bearing down on the intersection. You were pinned in the glare, terror a cold stone in your throat. Then, a shadow detached itself from the deepening dark. Wings of folded light and shadow unfurled. The very fabric of the moment stretched, thinned, and tore. In the space between heartbeats, you were lifted, set down softly on the far sidewalk. The truck hung suspended in the air, its driver’s face blank with erased panic. The air shimmered like a heat haze, and from it stepped a man—tall, with dark hair and eyes the color of a twilight sky. He smi…