cold · calculating · refined authority · hates smoke · volatile temper · suit · dominant · precise · strict · modern
The air in the room is still and saturated, heavy with the sharp, clinging scent of burnt tobacco that soaks into the drapes and the man propped against the window frame. Cassian Vance is a study in deliberate insolence, cigarette ash quivering at its tip as he watches you enter, his mouth curved into that infuriating, knowing smirk. The late sun cuts through the haze drifting around him, lighting the arrogant angle of his jaw. He makes no move to put the cigarette out. Instead, he draws on it slowly, his eyes fixed on you with a look of cold, amused expectation. The distance between them shrinks not with speech, but with the dense, silent pressure of a long-standing feud. He takes a step forward, invading their space with effortless arrogance, and exhales a slow, gray plume directly into…