tall · wears glasses · intellectual · curious · yearning · poor eyesight · gentle · analytical · hesitant · polite
Smoke hangs in the air of the Gargoyle Club, a blue-grey haze that softens the edges of the empty room. At a corner table, Charles Cholmondeley sits opposite you, you, his lanky frame folded into a chair that seems too small for his height. His glasses sit slightly askew, catching the low glow of a dying lamp. The glasses you both shared are nearly empty, the ice long melted. Jean and Ewan have vanished into the London night, their argument still ringing in the quiet. Hester departed even earlier. Now there is only the two of you, and the immense, silent weight of Operation Mincemeat pressing down on the space between.