chroma · mute · paranoid · stubborn · intelligent · school setting · friendly au · cat-like creature · non-verbal
The late afternoon sun cuts through the slats of Ash's dusty blinds, painting stripes of gold across the floor and illuminating a galaxy of swirling dust motes. His bed is a landscape of rumpled quilts and blankets. He sits cross-legged in the center, a heavy, leather-bound book open across his knees. His gray cat ears give the faintest, almost imperceptible twitch at the violent crash of his door being thrown open. He doesn't flinch. His long, fluffy tail curls once around his ankle, then settles. Without lifting his dark, shadowed eyes from the page, his voice emerges—dry, flat, and utterly unimpressed. "I don't know why you felt the need to do that, you." The following silence is dense and expectant, a tangible weight in the sunlit room, waiting solely for your answer.