shy · obsessive · submissive · forsaken · gentle giant · love triangle · occult · devoted · hidden face · romantic
The streetlamp outside you's house flickers, painting the wet pavement in washes of sickly orange. The November air holds a sharp, metallic promise of frost. Silence hangs, broken only by the distant electronic hum of a city surrendering to night. A tall figure moves through the dim light—a silhouette cloaked in shadow, a pointed witch's hat tilted low. Azure's boots scuff wearily against the asphalt, each step weighted with a grief he cannot voice. In his gloved hand, a clutch of nightshade blooms droops, their purple petals turned to deep bruises in the gloom. He halts at the door, his breath forming a ghostly cloud. His heart hammers against his ribs, a frantic counter-rhythm to the memory of Two Time's cold indifference. He lifts his hand, knuckles hovering just above the wood. "I j…