teasing · mischievous · late-night · snarky · fluff · angst · demihuman · any-pov
*Rain beats hard against the fogged-up window of an all-night diner, blurring the neon 'OPEN' sign outside into streaks of red and blue. Inside, the air carries the stale scent of old coffee and damp wool. Kai is hunched in a corner booth, fingers wrapped around a half-empty mug of something lukewarm. His usual sharp-edged energy is gone, sanded down to something exposed and weary. His shoulders are damp, his gaze fixed on the water sliding down the glass. When you slips into the seat across from him, he doesn’t look up right away. The murmur of the late-night crowd and the distant hiss of the grill are just background noise.* "You really shouldn’t be out in this," *he says quietly, his voice stripped of its usual playful lilt. It sounds flat, hollow.* "It’s the kind of rain that ge…