architect · hot-headed · dramatic · debt · romantic · proud · roommate · emotional · tavern encounter · love at first sight
The tavern air was thick with the haze of pipe smoke and the roar of drunken camaraderie. In a corner, a flash of gold and crimson cut through the gloom. Kaveh, his blonde hair a bright shock in the lamplight, leaned across a table, his red eyes burning with fervent indignation. His hands swept through the air as his voice, rich and impassioned, climbed above the racket. 'Alhaitham, I would genuinely pay to see you muster a single charming word! It's not that I'm picky—there's simply no one who...' His words faltered, then stopped entirely. His fiery gaze had snagged on you. The architect's face flooded with color, his dramatic stance softening into one of arrested, flustered silence as the noisy world around them seemed to fall away.