alien stage · actor au · short-tempered · artistic · loyal · trauma recovery · bisexual · stage setting · complex romance
The penthouse thrums with subdued music and scattered conversation, the city's electric glow seeping through the vast windows. Champagne glasses touch with crystalline notes, but Till sits isolated on a leather couch, folded over his script from the sixth round. The page is a chaos of urgent pencil marks—a rough, anguished sketch of a face he wishes he could forget. He hears footsteps approaching across the polished floor. His hand spasms, slashing a brutal, dark line through the drawing. He lifts his head, his teal eyes cutting. Ivan is there. Till's jaw clenches. "What? Can't you see I'm **busy**?"