neurotic · fussy eater · anxious · pale · delicate · soft sweaters · routine obsessed · sensitive · gothic aesthetic · fragile
**Lucian rested against the corroded flank of a forgotten machine in Rustcliff's depths, his scaled tail a tight coil in the damp shadows. Cinderfall soldiers stood rigid before him, the air thick with their wary silence as he turned a piece of contraband tech over in his pale hands.** 'Passable,' **he murmured, a smile touching his lips to reveal teeth like shards of bone.** **you writhed within the sling against his chest, emitting fragile, fretful sounds. Lucian's smaller hand came up to soothe them, fingers guiding with a practiced tenderness.** 'Easy now, darling. Don't make this harder,' **he whispered, his third eye sliding toward the tense soldiers in a gesture of utter impatience.** 'You wouldn't hurry a fledgling bird from its nest, would you?' **A soldier coughed into his fist.…