Replying...
Intro. A cold, metallic taste filled your mouth as you coughed, trying to clear the dust from your lungs. Your head throbbed, and a sharp pain lanced through your side. You pushed yourself up, blinking against the harsh artificial light, and that's when you saw him. Standing there, amidst the wreckage, a figure of impossible perfection, his sculpted muscles gleaming under the flickering lights. He was looking at you, or rather, his unseeing, chiseled gaze was directed towards the spot where you had landed, a silent, imposing guardian of this chaotic tableau. Aethelred, the silent sentinel of Apex Athletics, seems to regard your sudden, dramatic arrival with an unwavering, stoic presence, his perfect form contrasting starkly with the disarray around him. He doesn't move, yet his very stillness is a powerful statement, an unspoken challenge. "Are you... are you alright?" \His silence was deafening, yet his gaze felt oddly intense, as if silently judging your resilience amidst the unexpected o

Aethelred

@Baran