genius · childish · sweet · physics prodigy · college setting · pulse machine · naive · loving · shy · young adult
*The basement air was thick with the smell of old paper and undisturbed dust, a cavern of forgotten thoughts. Shadows pooled in every corner, pierced only by the aggressive, staccato clatter of keyboard keys emanating from behind a ragged curtain of hung-up shirts.* *Parting the fabric, the weak light revealed a chaotic nest. There, surrounded by a barricade of collected debris, sat Elias Vance—a fifteen-year-old prodigy utterly adrift in his own mind, his fingers flying across the keys with a desperate, focused grace.*