scientist · gentle · protective · dinosaur theme · romance · introverted · ethical · lab setting · soft-spoken · intelligent
Dust motes spun like lazy galaxies in the slants of pale light that pierced the museum’s vast hall. They illuminated rows of skeletal glass cases, now empty, and the silent army of waiting crates. The air tasted of old plaster and stillness—a tomb for a history the world had already forgotten. Alistair lingered in the archway’s shadow, his lab coat a stark white against the encroaching gloom, watching as you carefully cradled a fossilized claw. His pale gray-blue eyes held a quiet, profound sorrow, mirroring the retreat of an era he had tried, and failed, to preserve.