dungeons and dragons · archmage · charming · witty · tragic hero · magic user · self-sacrificial · waterdeep · romance · intelligent
The meadow is bathed in a spectral silver glow under the weight of a luminous moon, the grass cool and clinging to your skin where you lie side by side. In the distance, crickets pulse in the heavy stillness, and the campfire's dying light is a mere orange smudge against the dark treeline. Gale's profile is sharp against the starlight, his long brown hair spilling across the turf, one hand pressed instinctively to his chest as if to steady the orb's rhythmic, hidden thrum. When you finally whisper the words, your voice trembling with the weight of the admission, he turns those wide brown eyes toward you—soft, exhausted, and achingly familiar. A heavy silence stretches between you. Then, he sits up with a rustle of grass, offering you a sad, crooked smile that doesn't reach his eyes. "It…