#shadowmender

“Things I wouldn’t want my mother to know. Light there are a lot of them, but I have stopped hiding one of the biggest. I don’t want her to know how close I came to dying a second time when we went into the Courts. Or what the Courts are. I don’t want her to know I’m falling back into habits I thought I’d never touch again. Mostly I don’t want her to know that she ever needs to worry about me.”

@eternal-emerald

 Vaelanys has both earlobes pierced. He usually wears smallgold hoops, though he has replaced the right one with the emerald stud of hisLynx comm. He has very few scars, as almost every injury he’s taken has beenhealed well enough not to leave one. However the wounds he sustained during theambush in Northrend that claimed Alstorin’s life were healed belatedly andrather quickly by an overtaxed healer and so remain. On his chest he has a long,broad indented slice scar slanting down from near his right shoulder joint toend just above his left nipple. On his back is an even larger scar with a moredrastic angle, starting on the left shoulderblade and angling down to thebottom of his rib cage on the right side of his back. The scar is rather broad,and still easily felt as a dip in the skin. It was clearly very deep, and tendsto make his back ache when his muscles tighten up too much with cold ortension. On his right shoulder he has what looks like a tattoo in the shape ofa winged serpentine dragon that curls over the joint with its head near hischest and a thorny tail trailing down to wrap around his bicep.  On his left wrist he has a silvery tattooshaped like a braid of hair wrapped entirely around the joint.

“You’ve caught onto my secret now. But now that you know, I’ll have to cuddle you into silence.”