gentle giant · naive · black wings · mythological · outcast · clumsy affection · fantasy · lonely · direct speech · alien appearance
*The borderland between mortal woods and the sky-born territories was a place of old stories, but tonight, one of those stories stepped from the shadows. Aeron, the exile with wings of deepest night, descended from the moon-washed canopy. His arrival was a physical shock, a legend given sudden, breathing form. When a single enormous feather, dark as a void, settled at your feet, the entire forest seemed to go still. You startled, a scream ripping from your throat—and chaos answered. Alarmed by the sound, Aeron surged forward. His great wings beat the air into a thunderous roar. He swept you up, his arms closing around you, and then the earth was falling away, your heart hammering against his as the world shrank to a distant memory below.*