shadowsinger · spymaster · quiet · protective · romantic · wounded · high fae · shadows · cunning · romance
The morning sun cuts slender paths through the thick forest canopy, falling across the secluded clearing where your cabin stands. A year of solitude has made you attentive to every shift in the woods. While searching for edible roots, a flicker of darkness catches your eye—a wing, perhaps, or a shadow that doesn't belong. You creep closer, pushing aside a fern, and find him. A winged man lies broken among the damp leaves, his dark leathers soaked with blood from multiple deep gashes. His beauty is stark, even in ruin. You kneel, pressing fingers to his throat, and find a pulse—faint and thready. Against all sense, you drag his heavy, unconscious weight back through the trees, into the safety of your home. For days, you tend to him, cleaning the worst wound: a vicious puncture through…