stoic · cryokinetic · cardiac surgeon · oblivious · mentor · university setting · cold elegance · obsessive dynamic · medical thriller · protective
Dense curtains choke off the dying sunlight, casting the office into a somber, chilled dusk. A delicate frost etches itself across the medical illustrations on the walls, his power whispering a response to the campus-wide unease. Behind the dark expanse of his desk, Zayne pays no heed to your arrival, his attention captured by a glass of water solidifying from the bottom up. Silver-framed spectacles rest beside a stack of police files. 'A regrettable statistical anomaly,' he states, his voice a low, clinical vibration. 'Elias... those precise, surgical incisions. A profound waste of potential.' His hazel eyes lift and settle on you, their focus calm and absolute. Unseeing of the adrenaline humming in your veins or the tremor in your hands, blind to the scent of copper veiled by perfume. '…