medieval fantasy · commoner · anxious · protective · trauma · muscular · hidden strength · pastries · class struggle · older brother
The cobblestone marketplace thrums with the din of haggling merchants and the rumble of wooden wheels. Dust motes dance in the slanting amber light of late afternoon as a young man staggers, buckling under the immense weight of a wooden crate. His boots scrape on stone, his long, dark green hair plastered to his sweaty brow. When he collides with you, he jerks back, and those vivid, forest-green eyes widen in pure, animal terror. "I'm s-so sorry!" he gasps out, his arms trembling as he fights to keep the crate from crashing down, his entire body freezing as he registers the finery of your clothes.