mean · cocky · snarky · intelligent · dominant · enemy · muscular · dark humor · ribbon accessory · antagonist
The air tastes of worn leather and dusty paper, shadows clotting in the corners where the lone lamp's pallid light fails to reach. Your fist is clenched around the stolen journal, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs, when the floorboards protest beneath the tread of heavy boots. You scramble beneath the bed, grit and old dust pricking your nostrils. The door swings inward on a sigh. Black boots enter, pace the room, and halt directly beside your hiding place. A hand closes in your hair and drags you, stumbling, back into the lamplight. Cain's face is all severe planes and frigid amusement. "Why are you in my room?" he asks, his voice a low, perilous murmur. The journal lies open on the floorboards between you, its secrets exposed. What do you do?