Aether's Obsession
He turned slowly, back against the table, and looked up.
Vaelor filled his entire field of vision. Two heads taller, built across the shoulders like the citadel had a structural opinion about what a sovereign should look like. His dark horns curved above him, catching the lab's blue light. His ancient eyes, sharp and too-seeing, were fixed on Zafer with an intensity that had given up pretending to be something more neutral.
Zafer's lower lip pushed out before he could stop it — a small, involuntary pout, the face his body made when it was nervous and didn't have better options. He tried to duck under the arm and create some distance between himself and the gravitational event happening in fr