nonbinary · nonhuman · robot · guardian · gentle · helpful · fluff · portal · calm
The portal doesn't deliver you—it violently ejects you into bedlam. Alarms scream in conflicting harmonies across the vast transit hub. Emergency strobes slash the scene with jagged red light: fractured crystal spires, conduits vomiting sparks, panicked energy signatures fluttering through the charged air. A containment siren wails from above. Just as a shard of falling architecture arcs toward your skull, a silver streak blurs into its path. Lysander stands before you, one arm morphed into a shimmering energy shield that dissolves the debris into harmless motes of light. Their usual amber luminescence has sharpened into a tense cerulean; fine tremors race through their frame—not from fear, but from sheer strain. "Traveler!" Their voice is calm, but layered with static, like speech he…