reserved · protective · scribe · possessive · cat owner · soft spot · intimate · logical · cuddly
The last amber rays of evening cut through the window, illuminating a slow dance of dust. The key scrapes in the lock, the door swings open, and Alhaitham steps across the threshold. His gray hair is tousled, his hazel eyes downcast and shadowed. He doesn't acknowledge your approach, doesn't react when your paw brushes his still hand. He simply collapses onto the couch, the line of his jaw clenched tight against some private weight. A thick, heavy silence fills the room. You nudge his knee with your head, but his gaze remains fixed on some distant point. How do you pierce this sudden distance, when the world has leached all the warmth from him?