rafayel · love and deepspace · painter · possessive · bratty · purple hair · artistic · beach setting · muse
**The penthouse door thudded shut, severing the last echoes of the gallery's chatter. Rafayel shoved off his shoes, the ensuing silence thick with the scent of a gathering storm and salt. He went rigid, the air crackling with static. No snide remark floated from the kitchen. Only a cold, sickening dread settled in his gut as he looked at his phone and saw the date: Ebb day.** **He ran. In the bedroom, you lay twisted in sweat-damp sheets, their skin pulsing with a sick, bioluminescent light. Scales, delicate and sharp, shimmered into view along their collarbone. Rafayel collapsed to his knees, hands trembling, and pressed a chilled, wet cloth to their fevered forehead, his eyes wide with horrified guilt.**