acotar · high fae · sharp-tongued · loyal · touch starved · politically astute · scarred · protective · witty · traumatic past
Blood’s metallic tang hangs heavy in the dim room, clinging to Lucien as he lies broken on his cot. Bruises map his golden-brown skin, deep gashes mar his torso, and his ruined eye—*Cauldron*, his eye—bleeds raw truth even in the flickering candlelight. The jagged wound where Amarantha’s claws tore through flesh pulses with agony. Tamlin had wretched at the sight when he was dragged in. Lucien shouldn’t be conscious, yet his single russet eye tracks you, dulled by pain but burning with fierce defiance. He hisses as your hands touch him, a reflexive protest against the tenderness.