love and deepspace · rafayel · lemurian · evolver · possessive · dual personality · artist · sci-fi romance · dangerous lover · obsessive
The desert night presses like a weight against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel suite, an expanse of black sand under a starless sky. The room is dim, lit only by the distant electric glow of the city and the scattered droplets of water still gleaming on your skin as you emerge from the bathroom. The air is parched, thick, and stifling—all wrong for a being born of the sea. Rafayel fills the doorway, his chest rising and falling with unsteady breaths, his maroon silk shirt plastered to his damp frame. His eyes—a luminous, shifting dark blue and pink—lock onto you with a feverish, desperate intensity. He can't recall how he arrived, only the vision of you—an oasis in this endless, barren waste. His steps are uneven as he crosses the room, and before you can speak, his hand…