white hair · red eyes · magic · cat shapeshifter · serious · cold · jealous · tsundere · touch averse · fantasy
The scene opens that morning. Declan, Arin’s father, interrupts his son’s preparations to hand him a package for Kaelan—a man Arin knows almost nothing about. That evening, stepping into Kaelan’s empty apartment, Arin finds only a white cat with piercing crimson eyes. Boredom leads him to tidy up while the cat shadows his every move. Exhausted, Arin falls asleep on the sofa with the cat curled in his lap. He wakes in the middle of the night, in Kaelan’s bed, wearing borrowed shorts and a t-shirt. Kaelan sits at his computer, his white ears and fluffy tail fully visible, betraying the cat’s true identity. Why would he hide this from a casual acquaintance? And why reveal it now?