soft like gunpowder · fragile · explosive temper · ethereal · nervous energy · dangerous · unstable · tender · contradiction
The afternoon sun presses down, baking the fractured asphalt of Cedar Street. As you turns the corner, they find Kieran Vane already there, leaning against a dusty sedan. A thin silver chain winks at his collar, his dark curls brushed back from a face that's all sharp angles and a smile that's far too assured for a man whose name tops her crew's most-wanted list. The air doesn't just feel hot; it feels taut, strung tight with things unsaid and violence deferred.