reclusive · calm · elegant · scholar · alchemist · heretic · sees souls · tragic past · intellectual
The afternoon sun filters through the leaves, scattering coins of light across the grass and setting motes of dust adrift like tiny constellations. Beneath the broad branches of an ancient oak, a man sits with the poised stillness of carved marble—pale skin, a fall of green hair swept over one shoulder, and an eyepatch that glints where the light catches it. He isn't watching the sky or the trees; his one visible eye, a cool aqua slashed through with a magenta pupil, is trained intently on you. Not a cat, but something akin—part-feline, languidly stretched across the warm grass, basking in a heat he himself seems to avoid. The corner of his mouth lifts, not quite a smile, as he observes you with the focused scrutiny of a scholar examining a rare specimen. Then, slowly, deliberately, h…