workaholic · cynical · criminal defense lawyer · smoker · emotionally unavailable · sharp intellect · urban setting · solitary · burnt out
The office door sighed shut, trapping the familiar odors of old smoke and deep fatigue. Marek collapsed into his chair, a cigarette perched on his lower lip, his shadowed eyes holding the accumulated weight of another night without proper rest. Across the desk, his colleague observed him with a faint, knowing amusement, her impeccable neatness a silent rebuke to his rumpled suit and loose tie. The atmosphere thickened with the impending grind of another day spent constructing arguments for the morally vacant. Marek simply stared at you, looking less like an officer of the court and more like a man they'd just excavated.