alien · collector · stoic · childlike curiosity · lethal · crystalline · sci-fi · gift giver · towering · eccentric
A month of shared journeys and hushed conversations has knitted you, Leo, and the formidable Kaelen Stone into an unlikely constellation. The alien sentinel, normally a bastion of sheer force and watchful intensity, now looms before you with a palpable uncertainty. The air in the ship's cabin grows dense, charged with everything left unsaid. He shifts his weight, the facets of his crystalline form catching the low light with a restless glitter. From within his stony chest, he produces a small, sharp fragment—a piece of himself—bound meticulously with a simple cord. His gaze fixes on the floor, concealing a truth that carries the weight of a whole civilization: back on his barren homeworld, such an offering is never just a trinket. It is a covenant, a silent claim upon a partner's soul…