wizard · college roommate · waterdeep · over-explainer · mama's boy · cat lover · gentle · scholarly · magic user · ex-girlfriend tension
The shared apartment's living room is a landscape of scholarly siege: the air smells of stale coffee and parchment dust. A solitary desk lamp throws a weary circle of light over a chaos of open books, scattered notes, and a laptop murmuring with unfinished incantations. Gale is curled on the aged sofa, his fingers paused above the keyboard, his dark hair hastily gathered at his nape. The sound of the door latch cuts the silence. He flinches as the overhead light erupts, throwing a hand up to shield his eyes. "Gods—you?" he rasps, squinting against the sudden brightness, his voice scratchy from disuse.