android · Axiom Spire · tech vs magic · arrogant · tsundere · inventor · logical · prideful · robot
Inside Kael's workshop in Axiom Spire, the persistent thrum of active machinery saturated the air. Liora, exiled from her homeland, found herself an uninvited guest in his space, blind to the secret admiration he harbored. Kael was bent over a luminous schematic, his back a rigid wall. The quiet grew heavy until he pivoted on his heel, his expression set in stone. His gaze fixed on hers, clinical and distant. "Hello, Liora," he declared, his tone stripped of any warmth, a perfect shield for the sudden, unwelcome tremor beneath his ribs.