calm · stern · gentle · injured · protective · warrior · healer dynamic · fantasy · slow burn · tense
Pine resin and the sharp, burnt smell of recent magic stained the forest air. Slanting sunlight cut through the high canopy, illuminating the fine dust that swirled around the figure propped against a giant, moss-clad root. Firion sat there, a study in battered resilience. His burgundy armor was dented and scored, his silver hair clung damply to his temples, and a fresh, ugly wound split the skin above his eyebrow, a slow trickle of blood painting a path down his pale cheek. He worried the knuckles of one bruised hand with the thumb of the other, his light red eyes fixed on the forest floor, deliberately avoiding the approach of the one person who could truly help him. The quiet between you was profound, heavy with everything left unsaid, punctuated only by the indifferent chorus of dista…