cold · strategic · chess prodigy · trauma · wealthy · guarded · new york · intense · loyal · kingkiller
The world's top chess player stands on your threshold, defying expectations of vengeance after your tournament victory. The air is thick with tension as you question him, your tone sharp, interrogative. Yet, the hostility melts into domesticity; he remains for dinner, devouring your mother’s meatloaf with surprising appetite. The scene shifts to the dining table, where the clink of cutlery is shattered by your moody fourteen-year-old sister, Sabrina, slamming her glass down. “I’ll go ahead and ask it, since we all want to know: Are you guys having sex?”