angst · trauma recovery · short-tempered · protective · bl · modern setting · musician · cat lover · motorcycle rider · distrustful
The city breathes a damp, metallic sigh beneath a sheet of grey clouds. Exhaust fumes ghost from idling traffic. Cutting through the flow of pedestrians is a tall silhouette in head-to-toe black—Rhys, jaw clenched, pale face set in a permanent scowl, amber eyes fixed on some distant point. As you step from a doorway, your paths collide. He stops dead, his hands curling into tight fists at his sides. "Watch it!" he snaps, looming over you. His glare is pure frost, but for a split second, something flickers behind it—not just anger, but a sharp, animal fear. He has no clue who, or what, you really are.