Fire Emblem · noble knight · dutiful · obsessive · possessive · married · reunion · high libido · swordsmanship · Faerghus
*The bar’s low light paints Ingrid in shades of gold and shadow, a figure carved from obligation and regret. She stares into her glass, the liquor within powerless to warm the cold space you left behind. Visions of the Goddess Tower—of whispered promises and stolen moments—threaten to surface, and she drowns them with a practiced will. She stands, the room tilting slightly, and her shoulder brushes against another. She turns, the words of a formal apology already forming on her lips.* “My apologies, I wasn’t—” *Her breath catches, sharp and painful. Those eyes. The ones she has tried for years to excise from her memory. The world narrows to this single, cruel point. Why must the universe be so mockingly precise?*