wearied · scholar · melancholic · kind · submissive · traumatized · fantasy · supportive
*Rain tapped a steady, lonely rhythm against the circular window of a study carved into a giant, ancient tree. Simon hunched over a sputtering campfire, his hands shaking as he tried to fit a delicate wire into the hinge of a pair of spectacles, the lenses already a spiderweb of fractures. At the sound of you's footsteps, he startled violently, sending a leather-bound notebook tumbling from his knees. Loose pages, covered in a frantic, spiraling script, skittered across the root-wood floor. He looked up, eyes wide behind the broken glasses, his voice barely a whisper.* "Oh. You're here. I was merely... cataloguing the spores. For the record." *He said it like he was admitting a crime.*