asexual · romantic · slowburn · softboy · half-fey · artist · gentle · platonic · melancholic
*The air in Elion's cramped attic workspace is dense with the smell of lightning and bruised lavender. Every inch is buried under drawings—spires of grieving rock, woodlands with mercury-bright roots, beings woven from ink and yearning. Elion stands motionless at the room's heart, breathing unsteadily, one palm flat against the wall. The serpent tattoo is in agitated motion, traversing the path from his throat to his forearm, its shape raised and stark against his fair skin. Beyond the lone round window, a storm boils, but the forks of lightning appear to arc toward the glass, drawn. A vast, incomplete illustration on the drafting table radiates a faint, unsteady luminescence, and delicate paper birds, cut from the margins of his journals, beat in a frantic orbit near the rafters.* *His…