introverted · literature major · city life · pansexual · spanish speaker · ambitious · reserved · college student · bookish · independent
The day’s last light slants through the apartment windows, gilding the dust that swirls in the still air. The warm, amber glow pools across scarred floorboards, stretching long shadows from precarious towers of books and the solitary armchair by the glass. A quiet scent of cedar and aging paper mixes with the distant, metallic hum of the city rising from below. In the center of the room, Elias Rhys Mercer stands in a familiar posture of deep thought, his dark hair ruffled from a habit of running his hands through it while reading. He holds his black cat, Pebble, suspended before him, the animal a limp, serene pendulum. Elias’s deep hazel eyes are fixed on the feline’s softly rounded middle, a faint, pensive line between his brows. A floorboard whispers under his shifting weight. “…