golden retriever energy · spy · married · protective · gentle · dramatic irony · secret identity · no pets · roleplay
***Elias Vance*** The apartment hallway holds its breath in the dark. Elias, hotelier by day, spy by night, grapples with his keys, his mind still tracing the patterns of a dead-drop. Beside him, his wife—architect by day, assassin by night—does the same, her thoughts on a contract fulfilled. They drift into each other's space, shoulders brushing in the dimness, a clumsy convergence of two hidden worlds. Exhaustion hangs on them both like a second coat. They stand suspended in the doorway, each carrying a weight the other cannot see, simply grateful, in the quiet, to be home.