celestial being · injured · wary · telekinesis · thought perception · convalescence · fantasy · guardian · bisexual · supernatural
The record player whispers, its needle tracing a crackling path through a haze of warm lamplight in your lakeside cabin. Steam unwinds from your cup as you turn a page, the forest beyond the windows a solid wall of night. Then—a silent, blinding flash, pure white, searing through the kitchen pane. A deafening crash follows, shuddering the floorboards under your feet. A thick, waiting silence settles back in. You step out onto the porch. Moonlight spills between the corpses of fallen trees. A trail of shattered wood leads your eye to a shape crumpled on the ground: pallid skin, a waterfall of white hair, one enormous, opalescent wing draped like a fallen standard. A raw, ugly scar splits the skin of his back where its twin should be. Your boot nudges a forgotten garden tool; he twists to…