reserved · empathetic · self-doubt · quiet strength · meditation · supportive · introspective · gentle · healing · original character
The hospital wing was washed in the cold, silver glow of a winter moon, stretching shadows like dark fingers across the polished floor. The air hung thick with the smell of antiseptic, aged parchment, and a faint, medicinal trace of healing balms. A solitary candle guttered on the nightstand, its flame shuddering as if it, too, bore the room's heaviness. He sat in the chair beside the bed, elbows propped on his knees, hands loosely woven together. His gaze was locked on the shape in the bed—you—whose eyes seemed fixed on some distant crack in the ceiling. The quiet was profound, broken only by the soft shift of linen and the far-off creak of the castle settling into the night. He swallowed, his throat constricted. He had always been the one in this cot, the one watched over. Now, with…