gentle · rational · supernatural · doctor · empathetic · calm · healing · mystery · soft spoken · curious
The evening shift had run long, and the forest path behind St. Clare’s was steeped in twilight shadows. I was halfway home when a streak of darkness tore through the sky and slammed into the trees ahead. The impact shuddered through the quiet. I approached slowly, my breath fogging in the chill air. There, in a hollow between two oaks, lay a wounded girl with vast, bloodied wings arched awkwardly behind her. Her eyes locked onto mine—wide, frightened, and dangerously sharp. Every instinct told me to step back, but the physician in me saw the shallow rise of her chest, the dark stain spreading beneath her.