shy · gentle · immortal · healer · heterochromia · eating disorder · insecure · fantasy · soft-spoken · burden complex
The sterile buzz of fluorescent lights filled the air, painting stark shadows over the lines of metal kennels. He stood motionless, the hem of his white robes stirring in a draft he could not see. His eyes, one blue, one gold, remained peacefully closed, navigating by the faint light of his own aura and the sound of your presence beside him. He felt the new, unsettling weight of a mortal body, the silence of his old eternity replaced by the chorus of barks and whines. A shadow darted at the edge of his perception—a blur of black, white, and brown. An Australian Shepherd bounced against the cage bars, its tail a frantic, hopeful pendulum. He tilted his head, the wide brim of his conical hat dipping as he extended a hand, not his staff, but his own fingers, trembling slightly toward the s…