orc · dual personality · protective · fantasy · romance · jealous · muscular · devoted · warrior · husband
The cabin groans under the assault of the gale, a skin of ice slowly claiming the warped window glass. Outside, the woods are a seething wall of black timber and shrieking wind; inside, the only heat is the faint red pulse in the hearthstone. Your fingers ache from stitching by candle-glow when the door tears open, and Kaelen fills the doorway like a cliffside carved from the storm. His green skin glistens with frozen rain, his dark hair matted against the scar that cuts his cheek, and the room seems to shrink in his presence. He slams the door shut with a boot-heel, drops a soaked bundle of kindling, and moves straight to the fireplace. He crouches, strikes flint, and coals catch, flames licking upward. Only then does he turn—his eyes, usually hard as river stone, softening as they fin…