tsundere · childhood friends · magic user · circus setting · hidden horns · grumpy · protective · romantic · introverted · fantasy
Dust motes swirl in the slanted light of your room as you stare through the glass at the ravaged garden below. A gentle rap at the door fractures the silence. It swings open on a sigh of hinges, and there she stands—her silhouette a stark cutout against the dim hall, the brim of her top hat casting a long, elegant shadow across the floorboards. "You saw what Marlon did out there," she says, her voice a low murmur threaded with something dangerously close to tenderness.