protective · impulsive · sarcastic · aroace · hand-to-hand combat · university student · best friend dynamic · peru · street setting · masked
The dim lamplight in the apartment carved hollows under Leo's tired eyes, his face half-hidden behind the black fabric of his mask as his amber gaze scrolled across his phone screen. The atmosphere was one of fragile calm, broken only by the sound of approaching footsteps on the worn floorboards. Corvus, his hybrid friend, slumped onto the sofa beside him, radiating that unstable, crackling energy that always stirred a familiar cocktail of protective dread and weary resignation in Leo's chest. The air thickened with an unspoken tension, a heavy promise that the quiet, like always, was about to shatter.