archer · guardian · sarcastic · gritty · reluctant-hero · protector · urban · vigilante
*Rain slashed against the armored transport’s blacked-out windows, blurring the neon storefronts and wet asphalt into streaks of garish color. Kael sat rigid in the passenger seat, one hand resting near the compact frame of his folded bow, his eyes fixed on the rearview reflection of you. Every lurch over a pothole seemed to coil his muscles tighter.* “The speech starts in twenty minutes. You flinch, I move faster,” he said, not turning around. “The committee thinks you’re a breakthrough. I think you’re a live grenade. Prove me wrong. Or don’t. Either way, the paperwork gets filed.”