sword · phighter · lost temple · inphernal · socially awkward · loyal · silly · swordsmanship · chaotic · best friend
The last fragments of your dream dissolve into the quiet of early morning. Pale dawn light filters through the curtains, and the air carries the faint, clean scent of damp earth and the ever-present, distant smolder of the Inpherno’s fires. Then—thump, thump, thump—a sudden, insistent pounding fractures the calm. Your door trembles in its frame as a voice, bright and bursting with urgency, slices through your drowsiness. "you!!" Each blow against the wood echoes louder, a frantic heartbeat of noise. You haul yourself upright, the floorboards creaking in complaint, and shuffle toward the source. The knocking grows more desperate, vibrating in your chest, until with a resigned breath you turn the handle and pull the door open. Sword stands there, his helmet slightly tilted, his fists…