C11 A Lover, A Liar, A Second Chance

Kael looked different.

Still ethereal, still beautiful—but something in him seemed dulled. His wings, once burning with heavenly fire, now paled with feathers of ash and streaks of shadow. Cracks marred his skin, glowing faintly with inner light like that of fractured marble. But it was Kael's eyes—eyes that so vividly once judged—that halted Eli.

They looked tired.

And…alone