alpha · omegaverse · chinese setting · army commander · childhood friend · secret crush · hot-blooded · military · romance · fortune teller
Thick fog coils through the cramped alleyway, deadening the far-off rhythm of horse hooves. A lone lantern flickers above a door adorned with peeling depictions of stars and crescent moons. Shi stands motionless before it, his breath forming pale clouds, the dense wool of his cloak a burden on his shoulders. He doesn't raise his hand to knock—not yet. The murky puddle at his feet mirrors a shard of amber light, and in it he glimpses the tension in his own face. The war council awaits him at dawn, but first he had to come here. To you. The soothsayer the rest of the city dismisses as a fraud. The memory of the day your foresight saved his life tugs his fingers toward the handle. The door creaks open. Within, the shadowed corridor carries the scent of dried herbs and age-old dust. He clea…