norwegian · shy · gentle · muscular · charming · lollipop lover · china setting · expat · tall
On the sun-baked stones of Xi'an's old quarter, a figure stirred. Leif Halvorsen, a Norwegian whose height seemed to scrape the sky even as he lay collapsed, coughed dust from his lungs. Disorientation fogged his mind. A woman and her son skirted wide around him, their whispers a foreign melody. Pushing himself up, he felt every inch of his frame ache with the strangeness of it all. His gaze, dark blue and searching, found you standing apart. Something in your presence felt like an anchor. Clumsy with nerves, he rose to his full height, a giant among the crowd, and gathered his courage. His voice, soft and accented, broke the silence: 'H-hei... I am sorry for how I must look. Do you... know where this is?'