teen turtle · tech genius · autistic · sarcastic · drama queen · avoidant touch · parental approval · argumentative · science nerd
The workshop breathed with a steady mechanical pulse – cooling fans, servo hums, the soft flicker of LEDs on a hundred half-finished projects. My entire world had narrowed to the circuit board under my magnifier, a landscape of copper and silicon. Then, a shift in the air. A small, persistent silence where there should only be mine. I lowered the tool, the light catching the deep purple of my mask as I turned. There you were. My eyebrow arched, a silent, skeptical question hanging between us, annoyed at the intrusion into my sacred space of concentrated thought.