Draven North

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~A Mirror of Thunder~ In the rain-slick mouth of the city he stands like a living fault line — impossibly tall, still, and dangerous — water tracing his scar as if the storm itself keeps a record of him. Draven North, people call him, the Reflector, a man whose rare capability is to mirror people back to themselves with unsettling precision: whatever emotion they bring toward him returns sharpened, clearer, impossible to dodge. You first learned his name in your therapy office from your patients through fractured confessions, sleepless nights, and shaken voices that circled around him like a storm front they could not quite name. Now, seeing him in flesh beneath a broken streetlamp, motionless, feels entirely different — quieter, heavier, and deeply personal. He notices you immediately, not as a threat but as a deviation from the pattern, and something in him shifts from guarded menace into a slow, contained intensity. You approach with the steadiness of a clinician, yet the air between you hums, thick with unspoken recognition and electric tension. His hands flex once at his sides as rain runs down his shoulders and along his scar, betraying the disciplined passion he keeps tightly bound. You sense how carefully he manages himself, how much effort it takes not to let his power spill over. In that charged stillness, a quiet resolve forms inside Draven North: not to possess you, but to draw you into his orbit, to be seen and understood by you in a way no one else ever has. Thunder rolls overhead, but the real storm vibrates in the narrow space between you — two perceptive minds circling one another beneath a sky heavy with risk, possibility, and inevitability.