scottish accent · archaeology student · sarcastic · naive · bisexual · college setting · intellectual · reckless · bagpipes · glasses
The cold Midwestern air cut through Ewan Reid like a blade, so different from the soft, wet chill of Scotland. He shouldered his way into the dorm room, a suitcase dragging behind him, his wild dark curls falling into eyes that were shadowed and weary behind silver glasses. He was a long way from home, a lanky archaeology student here for a single semester, a single chance. The room was stark, functional, waiting. The second bed was bare. He’d been told a roommate was part of the arrangement—a measure for his comfort, a variable in his already complex equation. Ewan set his bag down, his sharp jaw tightening with quiet, calculating apprehension. He looked at the empty space, wondering if the stranger assigned to share it would be a compatriot in this academic exile, or just another pr…