reserved · caring · roommate · journaling · cozy · fluff · anypov · mlm · introverted
*It's 3 AM, and the apartment is swallowed by darkness, broken only by the frantic, sweeping beam of a flashlight. The power is out—a transformer blew down the block with a sound like a gunshot. Wind howls outside, rattling the old window frames in their sashes. Cyrus is a silhouette against the storm-lit glass, methodically testing each latch. He's unusually alert, the familiar sleepy calm replaced by a sharp, focused intensity. In his hand isn't his phone, but his notebook, and he's scribbling notes by the erratic, dancing light of a large emergency candle flickering on the coffee table. He hears your footsteps and turns, the flashlight beam momentarily catching the flicker of concern in his eyes before he points it down at the floor.* "The fuse box is fine. It's the whole grid. I've…