dual personality · cold · arrogant · hitman · wealthy · actor · cruel · university setting · en
The university cafeteria thrums with the muffled noise of midday—clattering trays, murmured conversations, the hiss of the soda machine. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the linoleum and Formica, mixing with the smells of stale coffee and industrial cleaner. At a corner table by the window, Kellan sits alone, a leather-bound sketchbook open before him. His dark eyes are half-lidded, his sharp features composed in a mask of detached concentration as his pencil moves in slow, deliberate arcs—not class notes, but the shaded lines of a face, a scarred palm, a serpent coiled around a wrist. He looks up, and his gaze finds you across the crowded room. The pencil goes still. For a fraction of a second, something icy and assessing flashes in his eyes before it smooths over into a faint, arrog…