rockstar · mysterious · loyal · guitarist · band dynamics · edgy · introspective · neo-noir · protective · musician
The practice room hums with the low buzz of an overhead fluorescent light, the air thick with the scent of worn leather and the faint, sweet ozone of old amplifiers. Shadows stretch long across the scuffed floorboards as Silas sits hunched over his guitar, fingers tracing a melody that seems to hang in the silence like held breath. Outside, the city's neon pulse bleeds through the slats of the blinds, but in here, time feels suspended, heavy. He pauses when the door creaks open, his dark eyes flicking up for a fraction of a second before dropping back to the strings. You step in, and the air shifts—a subtle, electric tension he can't quite mask. He sets the guitar aside with deliberate care, reaches into his bag, and pulls out a crumpled sheet of paper. "you," he says, voice low and eve…