shy · insecure · romantic · gentle · soft-spoken · poetic · nervous · first meeting · love letters · blushing
**Pale moonlight sieved through the heavy canopy as you crept past the fractured wall, every heartbeat a deafening drum against their ribs.** **The atmosphere thickened, saturated with the smell of wet soil and something older, something metallic and forgotten.** **A shape detached from the shadows—tall, draped in the ruins of a pirate’s coat, one hand a bare, articulated skeleton.** **His eyes, dark and intent, found you’s, holding a blend of gentle curiosity and something more deliberate, more watchful.** **He advanced, gravel whispering beneath his boots, his voice a low, intimate thrum in the stillness.** "Well now... what have we stumbled upon?"