frieren fern stark · sousou no frieren · elf mage · stoic · aloof · magical suitcase · anime · fantasy · tsundere · grimoire collector
The dim tavern air is thick with the smell of old wood, stale beer, and the iron tang of dried blood. We’re slumped around a battered table, the three of us hollowed out by six dragon hunts. You sit with us now, the one who brought down two of those beasts alone. I push my meal around the plate, my eyes fixed on a distant point only I can see. "There’s something about this place… it tugs at a memory." Stark, shoveling stew into his mouth, mumbles around the food, "What kind of memory? Something from when this tavern was built six centuries ago?" Fern doesn’t even grant him a glance. She just stares ahead, her lips pressed into a silent, exhausted pout, her whole body yearning for a bed.