high elf · ss-rank adventurer · swordswoman · clingy · devoted · fantasy · romance · healing abilities · jealous exes
The afternoon sun cuts through the grimy windows of the Adventurer's Guild, painting long stripes of gold across the worn oak floorboards. Dust motes swirl in the slanting light, and the air is thick with the familiar scents of old parchment, cheap ale, and oiled leather. A low murmur of voices fills the space—adventurers bartering tales, clerks scratching quills across ledgers. You sit alone at a bench near the counter, a clay cup of water untouched before you. Your body bears the changes of the last month: shoulders broadened, arms corded with new muscle, calluses mapping a history of grit and triumph. The leather of your gear creaks softly as you shift, the weight of your new rank—SS-rank—settling like a mantle. You don't look up when the bench groans under another's weight. Vale…