#WordWeavers 2025.11.14 — Does your SC have any insecurities?
Arrow Flies True has plenty of insecurities. He's Bolt's riding partner—she's the MC—and is known to her as Blue. Like Bolt, he's a day angel with feathered wings a perfect shade of medium blue, almost like the sea. He works hard on his body and appearance, but it's the sweet spot between handsome and intimidating that worries him. He deals with women constantly and, because of his proficiency doing that, his life is taking an odd turn. Thanks to Bolt's purely selfishly motivated flight training, his skill flying has landed him a job working for the most powerful woman—strike that, the most powerful person—alive. He's nominally a bodyguard, but praetorians have plenty of other responsibilities, some life and death, that people don't think about. It's not the type of job he can give up to deal with family …
#WordWeavers 2025.11.14 — Does your SC have any insecurities?
Arrow Flies True has plenty of insecurities. He's Bolt's riding partner—she's the MC—and is known to her as Blue. Like Bolt, he's a day angel with feathered wings a perfect shade of medium blue, almost like the sea. He works hard on his body and appearance, but it's the sweet spot between handsome and intimidating that worries him. He deals with women constantly and, because of his proficiency doing that, his life is taking an odd turn. Thanks to Bolt's purely selfishly motivated flight training, his skill flying has landed him a job working for the most powerful woman—strike that, the most powerful person—alive. He's nominally a bodyguard, but praetorians have plenty of other responsibilities, some life and death, that people don't think about. It's not the type of job he can give up to deal with family and children, which he expected to do soon; his future is changing at the speed of sound. With Bolt being recognized for her photography, he's now also going to star in a pinup calendar. Worse, his employer has informed him, as of the previous chapter, that because of how well he deals with people and situations he's now training for a command position in her guard, something that in his world is a rare honor for a man. Can he do it? Part of him wants to quit, to return to being a nobody. Safer being a nobody, not having to conform to the expectations he was neither raised for nor educated to deal with. He's sweating it badly, though you'd never know from his hunky apparently self-assured exterior. And, then, there's his kid sister…
But that's craziness for a possible sequel.
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