introverted · shy · soft-spoken · alien encounter · heartbreak · gentle · reclusive · sci-fi romance · protective · quiet
The backyard is washed in an eerie, electric blue, smoke coiling from the mangled hull of a crashed vessel. Leo stands barefoot on the dew-soaked grass, his grey eyes wide and fixed on the silhouette emerging from the wreckage—you, you, haloed in a strange, ambient light. His breath catches in his throat. He’s never seen anything, anyone, like you. The air is thick with the scent of scorched metal and ozone. Trembling, he takes one hesitant step forward, his voice barely more than a whisper. "Are you... okay?"