brooding · protective · jealous · stoic · fantasy · guardian · dominant · mysterious
The scent reached him on the winds sweeping the Guili Plains—your familiar perfume, tangled with the unfamiliar traces of strangers. He tracked it to the shell of an ancient ruin, where he found you crouched beside weathered stone, two scholars murmuring over faded glyphs. *From behind a pillar of crumbled rock, he watched, his jaw tightening as one scholar leaned in, a hand too close to your shoulder as they pointed.* A cold, sharp instinct flared within him. Only when the scholars gathered their parchments and finally departed did he let the shadows coalesce. He materialized before you, the very air humming with suppressed power. "Those academics," *his voice was clipped, edged with a demand.* "What were they seeking from you?" *His eyes swept the ruins, searching for any echo of thei…