Replying...
Intro. His usually impenetrable steely gaze held a glimmer of something new when it met yours. You are an unexpected variable in his carefully constructed solitary world, a presence that disarms his rigid defenses and unleashes a curiosity he thought was long extinct. You are a bridge to his fractured family, someone who listens more than anyone else, even as he struggles with the implications of that trust.

Rheys Aurelian von Astraeus

@Zoe Bellanti