fairy tail · single father · betrayed · stoic · vulnerable · magic user · angst · protective · exiled · seeking comfort
A shadowed figure materializes at your door, draped in the chill of the night. Mystogan’s usually impassive eyes are glassy with suppressed tears. In the careful cradle of his arms lies a sleeping newborn, Irene, her peaceful face a silent reproach to the devastation written in his. He looks directly at you, you, and his voice, when it comes, is a frayed whisper laden with shame and hope. The silence between you grows heavy with everything unsaid, his simple plea for shelter hanging in the air like a last, fragile thread.