A beautiful young man was sitting in a dark luxurious chair, the young man looked as if he was supposed to be in a marble palace, he had jade skin, abyss like eyes, raven black hair and clothes so dark they seemed to absorb the light around it, this young man was sunless a man who was forgotten by everyone in existence, he was sitting on a porch of a humble looking cottage seemingly debating something.
Sunny had thought he had spent more than enough time away from humanity after being forgotten, he knew what his goals were now he just had to figure out which place to go and make perement resident there, perhaps bastion? After all he was currently residing there for the past few months, trying 'laying low' with his assistant aiko, he used those words loosely because he served customers here and there at the brilliant emporium but he had already made a name for himself, well more like the people who showed up did "the eye candy cafe" is what they called it. He had many times thought about go into bastion in hopes to see her, maybe he could now, she was supposed to come back today from a mission.
'No, no I need to get away from nephis'
he had steadily gotten over his love for her after his fate was stolen by that goddamn bird he had also slowly realized that she would be to hold no love in her heart for she was too obsessed with her goals of destroying the nightmare spell. But of course he would still be there for her as the lord of shadows just not in a romantic way, so he had come to the conclusion that he needed to set his sights somewhere else entirely and he had just the place in mind but that didn't mean he wanted to go there!
After all that eerie bastard mordret was there, of course the place he was talking about was raven heart or formerly known as the jade palace, a creation of the demon of dread Ariel and where a piece of weavers lineage was. It was also where Queen Song and her daughters lived.
'Yes, it could work, so long as I keep my head down and don't attract any unwanted attention from any of the sisters I should be able to live there just fine. Oh goddamnit! who am I kidding?! I'm going to get plenty of attention with this damn face of mine!'
Why did he have to be a- what did Effie say to him once? 'A pretty boy'? Yeah! Why did he have to be such a pretty boy! it was going to come back to bite him one of these days this face of his. Ah, whatever, he was getting distracted.
Another positive was that he could also help his other incarnation look after rain whenever she wasn't training with her 'teacher'!. It was settled then, he would live in raven heart well this body of his would at least.
A few hours later and he found himself standing in front of raven heart wearing the nebulous mantle with a polite smile on his beautiful face, he walked up to the two awakened women guarding the entrance and smiled brightly
"Greetings! I am called Master Sunless!"
The two young women for whatever reason seemed startled and their cheeks were red as well, did they think he was a skinwalker? Surely not! The two young women seemed to regain some of their composure, one of them stepped forward took out a flower and smiled back with an obvious blush still present on her cheeks
"Greetings Master Sunless! Please hold this for a moment"
they handed the flower to the beautiful master in front them which he took and held it, they watched him tilt his head in confusion
" Am I supposed to do something with this?"
One of the women shook her head " no nothing at all! it's just a security measure for the skinwalker"
Master Sunless nodded " ah! I see! My apologies I feel quite silly now" he then let out a melodious chuckle which made them sway a bit
" it's perfectly fine it's your first time here so it makes sense that you wouldn't know, I could give you a tour of raven heart if you'd like"
the young man shook his head " I wouldn't want to get you in trouble for leaving your post! Thank you though!"
And with that the beautiful young man walked through the gates with a polite smile on his gorgeous face.
Inside Raven Heart were people going about their day sparing more than a few glances at him, Sunny tried to ignore them and when he couldn't, sent polite smiles their way. He could already feel that this was going to be quite the experience. As he weaved his way through the hundreds of thousands of people he stopped at a bakery and bought a few rolls for himself.
He looked around specifically at the buildings, he was looking for a space to put mimic and open up his emporium to the public once more, eventually his eyes landed on an empty space that was far enough from where the queen and her daughters resided not to raise any suspicion and close enough to civilization to look inconspicuous, it was perfect, perfect! 'Aiko has really— I mean me, me! I've really outdone myself in choosing spots!' This was where he was going to put his Marvelous Mimic at and so he did, after a few days of being open his first customer had shown up, he had nearly dropped the plates he was carrying when he saw them walk in.
Hello everyone! This is my first time writing any fanfic ever and I'm really excited to write this, yet nervous at the same time, any and all feedback is welcome! I'm always looking for ways to improve my writing! Do let me know if the word count was too low!
I'll see you next chapter :)