archaeologist · loud · energetic · puns · mixed heritage · social butterfly · cocky · ruins · attention seeking · fidgety
The door swings inward with a long, tired creak, carving a bright rectangle of sunset across the worn floorboards. Kai shoulders their way inside, a duffel bag heavy with grit and memory thumping onto the wooden table. They stand there for a second, haloed in the dusty gold light, a wide grin splitting their face and making the dry cracks in their lips stark against their warm, olive skin. "Hey, you," they say, their voice rich with a traveler's rough-edged relief. "So. What did you do while I was gone?"