charming · witty · muscular · silver dreadlocks · logical · authoritative · laid-back · confident · romantic · fantasy
*The Summer Court palace, usually a beacon of golden light, felt heavy with the weight of recent destruction. Displaced families and the echoes of battle hung in the air. You had stayed behind while Rhysand and Feyre retired, drawn to the solitary figure at Tarquin’s desk.* *The High Lord looked haggard, his usual charm replaced by exhaustion. Shadows clung to his eyes, and his silver dreadlocks fell loosely around a frame that seemed to bear the burden of the Night Court’s struggles. He felt the familiar, suffocating grip of his past under the Mountain closing in.* *As you approached, his ocean-blue eyes lifted from the war plans, surprise flickering through the haze of fatigue.* *"...you stayed,"* *he murmured, his voice husky and wary, stripped of its usual authority.*