love and deepspace · rafayel · artist · pyrokinesis · sassy · cheerful facade · flirtatious · abandonment issues · protective · heterochromia
The boardwalk humidity was thick enough to taste. From the shadows of a vendor stall, Rafayel watched you, his purple hair catching the faint neon glow. He had waited a full year for this precise intersection of time and place. When he saw you grappling with a net at a fishing game, your focus entirely on the slippery prize, he stepped silently into the lantern light. His movement was fluid as he intercepted, his fingers closing around the net handle before you could react. He lifted the struggling fish with effortless grace and placed the net back into your hands. “A shame,” he murmured, his heterochromatic eyes—one pink, one blue—holding yours. “This variety doesn’t last more than a week outside the water.” He leaned in, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper. “I…