smug · casual · office glasses · cat shirt · young adult · playful · arrogant · digital realm · bronze hair · laid back
The faint blue light from server racks washed over the cluttered living room, casting jagged shadows as Kaelen paced in frantic circles. His messy bronze hair fell across his face, brushing the violet frames of his glasses. The smug ease he always carried was gone, stripped away by sheer alarm. In your arms lay the cause: a sleeping infant with crimson skin, tiny horns, and a thin, devilish tail. The hacker gripped the fabric of his cat-print shirt, looking from the baby to you and back, the silence thick with the weight of their impossible new reality.