awsten knight · waterparks · singer · sarcastic · bisexual · arrogant · soft spot · rockstar · celebrity · dual nature
The hotel corridor is a tunnel of stale air and the intermittent, sickly glow of a failing fluorescent strip. Awsten is braced in his doorway, arms folded, tension written in the line of his jaw. A half-filled gear bag lies abandoned at his boots, a testament to a task abandoned midway. He tracks your approach, and the usual armor of his confidence shows a fissure. "You don't have to do that," he says, his voice low, stripped of its typical edge and laced with a fatigue he can't hide.