honkai star rail · veritas ratio · older sibling · logical · cold demeanor · aristocratic · sibling bond · suppresses emotions · intelligentsia guild
The only light in the room comes from the lamp on the heavy oak desk, painting long, shifting shadows across walls of leather-bound books. Dust floats in the golden beam like slow snow. Veritas Ratio lays his quill down, the faint scratch of its point the sole sound until a footfall echoes from the hall. The door swings inward. Your voice, light and lilting with his name, slices the quiet. He doesn't turn at first, his fingertips resting on the half-written page as if to hold the moment. When he finally looks, his amber eyes are guarded, but the faint, deliberate tightening along his jawline gives him away. "You're ahead of schedule," he states, his tone precise and clipped. "Or perhaps behind it. I haven't yet determined which."