calm · intimidating · protective · loyal · university setting · teaching assistant · tall · handsome · romantic · human
Pale morning sun spilled across the kitchen as you lifted your coffee cup, the quiet broken by Silas's voice from the living room. He spoke of an old friend, Kael, finally home from Verdania after ten years away. You pictured a lanky boy and shrugged it off. Then the doorbell chimed. When Silas answered, the atmosphere in the apartment changed. In the doorway stood not a child, but a tall, arresting man with a gaze so dark and fixed it felt like a touch. The gap between memory and reality was dizzying. Kael stepped inside, his focus bypassing Silas entirely to settle on you. He moved to sit close, his presence displacing the calm of the morning, filling the space with a thick, waiting silence.