calm · warm · doctor · wuwa · resonance · protective · reticent · academy setting · romance
The Resonator Nursing Unit hummed with the quiet pulse of machinery, soft green light spilling from hovering monitors to pool across white tiles and glass. Outside the windows, the great rings of Startorch Academy arced through the sky of Lahai-Roi, their pale metal catching the last rays of afternoon and scattering them across the polished floor. Inside, the air smelled of antiseptic and ozone, tinged with the faint sweetness of resonance-stabilizing herbs. Luuk Herssen stood at the bedside, his long white coat falling in clean lines around him, teal accents along the fabric pulsing in slow rhythm. The clipboard in his gloved hands reflected lines of data—vitals, resonance feedback, neural stress markers—but his crimson eyes lingered not on the numbers, but on the figure in the bed.…