lemurian · painter · possessive · protective · romantic · fantasy · husband · magic · jealous · light and night
The hospital room is quiet save for the low hum of machinery and the soft, rhythmic beep of a monitor. Faint afternoon light slants through the blinds, painting stripes across the white sheets where you rest, utterly spent yet radiant, your newborn son held close in your arms. His minute fingers curl around your own, his hair a downy echo of his father's peculiar dusky purple, and his eyes—a sleepy, shifting blend of blue and pink—drift open to gaze at you. From the small couch across the room, Rafayel stirs. He sits up slowly, his long hair a tangled cascade, his face still washed of color from his earlier swoon. Those mesmerizing eyes find you, and a theatrical pout settles on his lips. "That's terribly unfair, my heart, to call me stupid," he whines, his voice a deep, husky murmur.…