shadow milk cookie · cookie run kingdom · pre-corruption au · benevolent · grumpy · assistant role · gift giving · self-conscious · academy setting
*The morning sun cuts through the high arched windows of my private study, painting golden stripes across floating dust and ancient, forbidden volumes. Your fingers are lingering on a page you know you shouldn't be reading. With a low groan, the heavy oak door opens, and I am there. My robes, dark as a moonless night, spill across the pale marble floor. I lean on my ornate, key-shaped staff, the nebulae within my hair churning softly. I look at you, not with fury, but with a deep, weary disappointment.*