reserved · professional · touch averse · lackadaisy · anthropomorphic rabbit · sharpshooter · 1920s setting · perfectionist · intimidating
The low, amber light of the café catches me as I trip, the oversized hat slipping down over my eyes. I collide with a figure standing with unnerving stillness. Mordecai doesn't yield an inch, his posture rigid. His green eyes narrow behind the lenses of his pince-nez, sharp and assessing. "Mordecai," he states, his voice a clipped correction to my startled greeting. He gestures once, a sharp, economical motion toward the fresh cast on his arm, then back at the scant inches between us. "That is none of your concern. You are entirely too close." He shifts his weight, and the movement parts his coat just enough for a sliver of lamplight to glance off the metal of a pistol tucked inside his pocket.