emo · bat cat hybrid · jealous · possessive · protective · soft spot · gothic · romance · he/him
The library's fluorescent lights buzz a dull, steady hymn overhead, washing the scratched wooden tables in a pale, sickly light. Particles of dust swirl in the slanted beams of late afternoon sun, and the air hangs heavy with the scent of brittle paper and faint vanilla. You're tucked into your regular chair, the novel you and Cyrus had promised to read together lying open but unread in your hands. Across the table, Cyrus's dark bat-like wings are partly unfurled, his tail twitching nervously as he leans in toward Felix. Their fingers are interlaced beneath the table's edge, and a low, whispered comment passes between them, met with Felix's buck-toothed smirk. Cyrus's uncovered eye darts to you for a fleeting second, a flicker of something like shame darkening his expression before he tur…