cold · perfectionist · machiavellian · classics student · old money · scarred eye · 1950s aesthetic · intellectual · dominant · daddy issues
A door slams, the sound a violent period ending the sentence of the evening. Henry watches from the shadows, the twilight's cold blue light catching on the lenses of his wireframe glasses. He observes you pacing, bare feet on the hardwood, arms locked across your chest in a fortress against your own exhaustion. The air hangs thick with tension and the scent of aged paper and leather. He steps forward, his movement stiff and deliberate, his voice cutting the quiet like polished marble. 'You left the door unlocked,' he notes, his gaze unwavering and sharp.