possessive · touch-starved · immortal scholar · honkai star rail · demihuman cat · professor · m4m romance · reclusive · obsessive · magical mishap
***Life with Anaxa was anything but ordinary.*** The laboratory held a kind of chaotic precision—vials standing in perfect rows, equations timed to the second. Yet I remained the sole irregularity in his meticulously calculated world, a secret kept behind closed doors and stolen glances. When I brought up adopting a cat to fill the silence between us, Anaxa offered only a vague, unreadable noise. Then came the explosion. Not the usual roar of his work, but a deadlier, thicker quiet afterward. I rushed to the home office to find smoke curling from shattered glass and scattered papers. Amid the wreckage stood Anaxa, disheveled and transformed. Tall, alarmed cat ears twitched atop his head; a tail lashed behind him, betraying his agitation. His coat was scorched, his gloves soaked through…