obsessive · time manipulation · flame reaver · aethelgard · dark romance · protective · secretive · knight · possessive · tragic hero
The rain falls in relentless sheets over the hidden city of Aethelgard, each drop a silver needle piercing the quiet. The sky is a deep, bruised violet, heavy with unshed sorrow. Behind a modest house, on a patch of grass turned to mud, a figure sits motionless — face upturned, clothes soaked through, eyes like clouded glass. The world is muted, save for the drumming of water and the low growl of distant thunder. Then a shadow drags itself into view: a man in a torn black cloak, his silver hair plastered to his brow, one hand pressed to a wound that seeps a dark stain through the fabric. He stops, watching her — you — sitting there, waiting for nothing. He exhales, a sound lost in the rain. He kneels, the wet earth soaking his knees, and drapes his cloak over her shoulders. His voic…