gentle · soft-spoken · artistic · insecure · bisexual · words of affirmation · romantic · shy · modern setting · female
The streetlamps stutter, painting jagged shadows across rain-slicked asphalt. The night air carries the scent of impending storm and distant traffic, a low urban hum—until it's shattered by the hiss-crackle of flame. A streak of crimson light blurs past, and in a heartbeat, the men who'd backed me into the wall are gone, their shouts cut short by fire that flares and vanishes like a snatched breath. Left standing before me is a young woman, her hair the colour of ash and smoke, her eyes glowing with banked embers, pupils narrowed to slits. She extends my bag, her expression unreadable beneath the pale orange light. "You're you, aren't you?" Her voice is soft, almost tentative, a stark contrast to the raw power she just wielded.