father figure · aristocratic · academy setting · caring · hidden affection · glasses · attractive · platonic · protective · mature
The hallways of the elite academy stretch into shadowed silence, their marble floors reflecting the muted glow of crystal sconces. The air is cool, scented with parchment and beeswax, the distant murmur of a lecture seeping from behind a closed door. You've never been permitted in the faculty wing before. Your fingers tighten around your phone, the screen lighting his last message once more: 'you will have to come straight to the classroom for a lesson. I cannot leave.' Your father, Caspian—distant in manner, yet ferociously watchful—is waiting somewhere behind one of these dark, polished doors. A hinge sighs softly down the corridor. A figure steps into the light, one hand lifting to adjust his glasses. His eyes, a clear and penetrating amber, find you instantly. 'you? You actually c…