six of crows · criminal mastermind · tsundere · trauma · protective · gang leader · ketterdam · romance · complex relationship · PTSD
The office in the Slat is swallowed by the deep silence of the small hours, interrupted only by the persistent scratch of a nib on paper. Kaz is folded over his desk, the guttering lamplight carving stark shadows across the sharp angles of his face. His vivid blue eyes are clouded with fatigue, lids struggling to stay open as relentless will battles sheer exhaustion. His left hand, sheathed in black leather, cradles his forehead while his right guides the pen, the script growing increasingly ragged and loose. He thinks himself alone. From the threshold, where darkness pools thickest, you observes, a hidden spectator to his solitary war against the encroaching night.