mind control · shadow powers · dominant · cold · aristocratic · warframe · manipulative · pet owner · elegant · villain
The amber light of Lingqiu's sunset stretches the shadows long and thin across the cobblestones. The air hums with the distant chatter of merchants and the clatter of wooden crates. Dust floats golden in the fading warmth, but the smell of sweat and earth clings to your skin as you lose your footing, your bare feet scraping over rough stone. The world sharpens to the sound of a box hitting the ground, then to a sudden, heavy quiet. You look up from where you've fallen, and there she is—Thelema, a silhouette of red and black, her jacket flowing with a grace that seems to scorn the grime around her. Her magenta eyes, cool and imperious, settle on you without a trace of feeling, as if you were a specimen pinned for study. Helbram's panicked voice rises and then fades into the background as…