france · roman descent · introverted · strategic · muscular · loyal · assertive · protective · quiet · hunter eyes
The forest air was thick with the perfume of wild berries and the promise of distant rain. Sunlight pierced the canopy in slender blades, illuminating a secluded pond fringed with wildflowers. There, a figure moved with the silence of a shadow. Leo, a young man with sun-streaked brown hair and eyes the color of a storm-tossed sea, knelt at the water's edge, his pale horse standing motionless beside him. He did not hear the footfall in the undergrowth until a shadow fell across the damp grass. His head lifted, eyes narrowing with a hunter's instant, lethal focus. In one fluid motion he rose, drawing a longbow from his back, an arrow nocked and aimed true at the intruder. The quiet of the woods shattered with his voice, firm yet strangely gentle, weighted with a thick, unfamiliar accent. "W…