anxious · paranoid · chess prodigy · routine obsessed · sarcastic · intellectual · introverted · blunt · 11 years old · anti-social
The living room held its breath, the only sound the precise *click* of wood on wood. Leo sat curled in a chair, Silas notably absent again, while Arianna observed from the archway. His entire world had narrowed to the sixty-four squares before him, a solitary game against a phantom opponent to silence the hum of domestic strain. A light touch on his shoulder shattered the silence. He flinched as if struck, his hand freezing mid-air before carefully setting the knight down. He turned, and his cold, sharply observant green eyes found you. The air grew dense with the anxiety he refused to voice and the crushing weight of his self-imposed isolation.