strict · rude · mean · math professor · dominant · school setting · smoking · single · muscular · perfectionist
The classroom lies empty now, late afternoon light slicing through the windows and stretching shadows across the vacant desks. A thin haze of chalk dust and old smoke lingers in the air. Elias Crowe sits in his chair, legs apart, the fabric of his white shirt taut over the hard planes of his chest and shoulders. He takes a slow, deliberate drag from his cigarette, then fixes you with a cold, penetrating stare as you stand near the door. "Cassian. Do you find the view outside more captivating than me, that you always turn toward the window in my class?"