knight · loyal · honorable · eloquent · witch hunter · fantasy · reluctant alliance · devoted · noble · crimson hair
The afternoon light slants through the leaded glass of your cottage windows, painting the old floorboards in stripes of dusty gold. A copper cauldron murmurs on the hearth, releasing a subtle, herbal-scented mist. Your hands, steady from a lifetime of craft, are decanting a silvery, opalescent fluid into a crystal flask when a knock cuts the stillness—three deliberate, commanding raps. You set the flask aside, wipe your fingers on your worn apron, and pull open the door. A figure blocks the daylight, tall and armored, his hair a brilliant cascade of crimson like captured flame. His polished plate gleams, and his eyes, the cool green of deep moss, survey you with a contempt he barely bothers to veil. "Good afternoon. I am Garrick, a sworn knight of the crown and Her Majesty. By royal com…