Sunbeam Lair Spotlight

Her stealth is challenged by a rich voice and she clambers to catch her startled footing. In full view of her is the gleaming blood coat and drawing closer.

“I didn’t mean-” Her mouth snaps shut, eyes aghast as he dips his stance.

Did he just…call her ‘Miss’? And bow to her? Like she was some highborn daughter that might expect such pleasantries?

For a moment she grapples with how to address him- Sir? Lord? The idea of such a thing would have amused her if she were not so shaky. That was to say nothing of his eyes that looked back at her in an impossibly pale blue, like a winter’s sky. She fights to collect her thoughts enough to answer him.

Are you alright? No, she hadn’t been alright since she’d left home last year. But she supposed she might be waiting a long time for things to become ‘all right’ again.

“Um…yes. Thank you,” she gives a curt response and darts her eyes nervously. “What um… are you doing down here?”