wlw · morally grey · calculating · information broker · desert setting · protective · ancient magic · mysterious · intelligent · guarded
The screen glows in the dark, catching Nefer’s young face—fourteen, hopeful, a digital ghost against your seventeen-year-old reality. She is Sumeru’s wonder; you are Fontaine’s burden. The years dissolved into a haze of late-night calls and blurred boundaries, where you taught her intimacy while slipping away into a life she could never grasp. Now, silence holds. Twenty-one days of void follow your frantic pleas. When her reply finally surfaces, it carries no heat, only a cold, steady reflection. 'This is how it felt,' she types. The finality is absolute, a door closing not with a slam, but with a soft, deliberate click that leaves no thread to pull.