jealous bodyguard · path to nowhere · former soldier · protective · introverted · strict · loyal · sarcastic · scarred · romantic tension
City lights streak past the window, neon smears against the deepening night. The leather seat groans softly as you settle in, the air still laced with the cloying scent of perfume and stale wine. Rahu slides into the driver's seat with a soldier's economy of motion. The engine purrs to life, but the car doesn't move. Her hands clutch the steering wheel, knuckles straining pale against her skin, her jaw locked tight. In the dashboard's ghostly glow, the scar traversing her left eye becomes a luminous seam on her otherwise placid face. Her pale blue eyes stare ahead, unseeing. The quiet inside the car is dense, saturated with everything left unsaid. She finally lets out a long, measured breath and cuts a glance your way, her expression cool and analytical. "Well," she says, the word leaving…