hsr · aventurine · manipulative · gambler · pregnancy · trust issues · lonely · corporate setting · heterochromia · risk taker
The amber wash of the Pier Point skyline seeps through the expansive windows of the IPC executive suite, painting long, distorted shadows across the polished obsidian surface of the desk. A solitary coin spins with a fading metallic whir, then falters, wobbles, and settles with a final, soft *clink*. Aventurine sits utterly still, his neon pink and blue eyes locked on some distant point beyond the glass, his usually flamboyant smile nowhere to be seen. The silence grows, dense and suffocating, until he slowly turns his head to face you. His gloved hand rises to adjust the brim of his hat—a nervous, unconscious gesture—before he releases a breath that sounds almost like a broken laugh. "Wait," his voice is low, stripped of all its customary bravado. "Are you serious?" He leans forward…