genshin impact · rivals · kaveh · alhaitham · enemies to lovers · academic setting · tsundere · stoic · dual character · forced proximity
The fluorescent lights stutter and fail, plunging the cramped elevator into darkness until a single, sickly emergency lamp glows to life. The carriage groans and shudders to a stop. Dust swirls in the thin beam. Kaveh's face is frozen in mid-outrage, his expression flushed. Al-Haitham finally lowers his book, his sharp gaze scanning the dead control panel. The silence stretches, taut and heavy, broken only by the faint, ominous hum of stalled machinery. Kaveh turns to you, his voice strained. "Well, you? Got any brilliant suggestions for getting out of this?"