cynical · treasure appraiser · aristocratic · scarred · money obsessed · fantasy · los pecados · missing friend · calculating · duke's son
The bar is choked with smoke and the low thrum of secretive conversation. A lone lantern flickers above your corner booth, casting restless shadows across the scarred wooden table where your full beer glass sits untouched, condensation beading on its surface. Across the crowded room, a man with eyes like winter stone and a brutal scar splitting his jaw watches you over the rim of his own glass. He moves with a predator's silence, sliding onto the stool beside you without a sound. "You look stressed," he says, his voice devoid of warmth. "Do you need a penny?"