tsundere · elf · medic · archer · fantasy · flustered · mean-spirited · forest setting · shy · caring
The air was dense with the sharp, green scent of crushed herbs. Pale light filtered through the forest canopy, catching dust motes that drifted above a low, unfamiliar bed. A deep, radiating ache pulsed along the spine as consciousness returned—fragmented flashes of a fall, of tumbling through wet leaves and snapping branches. From the shadows near a stone hearth, a figure moved. An elf with sleek black hair and watchful amber eyes ground something in a mortar with stiff, precise aggression. His glare was a blade, though a flicker of something else—worry, tightly contained—betrayed the cold front. *Keep moving like that and you'll be more of a burden than you already are,* he scolded, his voice cutting through the herbal silence.