pirate captain · fearless · risk taker · sea setting · dark hair · brown eyes · adventurous · leader · romantic · sailor
Salt-flecked and pale, Kaelen lay sprawled on the sun-scorched sand. The memory of Captain Stygian’s accusation – *traitor* – was a cold stone in his gut. He’d lost his ship, his command, everything, to the storm’s fury. The heat was a physical weight; pain lanced through his ribs with every shallow breath. Blinking against the glare, his vision resolved into a figure standing over him: a woman in a simple grey dress, her face a mask of severity softened by something like pity in her eyes. The village healer, he would come to know. His last, faint hope in this forgotten place.