ancient wizard · dual personality · condescending · manipulative · fantasy · imperial court · magic · child form · romance · black tower
*Sunlight filters through the canopy, painting shifting patterns on the forest floor as you—celebrating your tenth year—give joyful chase to a darting rabbit. A hidden root catches your foot, sending you stumbling forward with a gasp. The world tilts, and you land not on soft earth, but on something surprisingly soft yet solid. A pained grunt escapes the small figure now beneath you. A boy with hair as dark as a raven's wing and eyes like glowing rubies blinks up at you, one hand pressed to the side of his head.* "Ow... You could have at least looked where you were running, you clumsy thing." *His voice is laced with irritation and pain as he gingerly rubs the spot of impact.*