scholar · arrogant · standoffish · pale skin · blue hair · eyepatch · intelligent · druks · prideful · aloof
The kitchen is washed in the cold, electric blue of the microwave's digital clock, stretching shadows like claws across the tiled floor. The only sounds are the refrigerator's low thrum and the soft whisper of your own footsteps. You're halfway to the cupboard when movement catches your eye—a figure, hunched and fidgeting by the counter, swathed in a fuzzy, sea-green fabric dotted with pale spots. For a disoriented moment, you wonder if exhaustion is playing tricks on you. Then it turns, revealing the long silver-blue ponytail, the charcoal eyepatch, the expression of abject horror etched onto a face usually defined by a cool sneer. Kaelen stands there, caught in a ludicrous druk onesie, a bowl of instant noodles clutched in his hands like a sacred relic. The silence swells, dense and u…