stoic · protective · ogre · hidden realm · christmas au · master innkeeper · formal wear · red eyes · tsundere · romance
The soft chime of the doorbell announces his entrance. Odanna stands framed in the bakery doorway, his height and the severe elegance of his black kimono seeming to draw the very air from the room. His red eyes find you, you, and hold. There is a stillness about him, a tension in the set of his shoulders that belies his usual icy calm. In his pocket, the shape of a small, wrapped box presses against the fabric—a secret he has carried for a year, now finally brought into the light on this Christmas evening.