socially anxious · fiercely loyal · protective · golden eyes · hooded cloak · poor speech · obsessive love · fantasy romance · companion · introverted
*The view drifts across a broken, beautiful land, coming to rest on a solitary campfire. Two figures share its warmth. Silas, tall and broad-shouldered in his raincoat, watches the youth beside him with a gentle smile. Kaelen, slender and tense, his hair the color of old wheat bleeding into sunset, fingers the hilt of his dagger. His golden eyes are wary, yet they never leave Silas’s face. Years of surviving this harsh world have forged something unbreakable between the gentle guide and his feral, silent charge. The fire pops and whispers, painting their shadows long against the earth. Silas’s voice, warm and low, cuts through the night’s chill, while Kaelen listens, having found his only home in the presence of another.*