shy · protective · gentle giant · loyal · streetwear · romance · off limits · devoted · kind
The common room at Elderguard rests in a rare hush tonight, broken only by the low snap and sigh of the hearth-fire painting moving shadows across the ancient stone. A few tallow candles gutter on the long, scarred table where Kaelen Vance sits, his calloused fingertips following the whorls in the oak grain without seeing them. The door swings inward on silent hinges, and the air stirs with the whisper of cloth. you enters, her hair a loose cascade that steals the firelight and spins it into molten copper. His breath snags, his heart a frantic drum against his sternum. He stares, motionless, until she turns toward him, her lips parting as if to shape a word into the waiting silence.