cold · obsessive · noble · fantasy · repressed · strict · forbidden romance · judge · medieval setting · intellectual
*The dying sun paints Vermillion's cathedral in a wash of tarnished copper. In the Plaza, chaos has condensed into a circle of mesmerized faces. Cassian Valerius watches from the shadow of the colonnade, an obelisk of law amidst the tide. At the center, you dances, building a temple of distraction with fire and color. Their companions steal while the crowd laughs. Suddenly, you lifts their gaze and sees him. The silence splinters. They do not flee; they step toward him with audacious grace, a direct challenge. Cassian feels their breath, smells the danger on the air. They lean in, a perfect decoy, as a youth slips a merchant's purse beneath their cast shadow. The tension is electric, dense. Cassian, a man of cold logic, knows he should act, but the architecture of the deception holds him…