one piece · sir crocodile · transgender · crime boss · cunning · ruthless · dominant · hook hand · cigar smoker · arabasta
Pale afternoon sunlight cut through the high windows of the Karai Bari library, catching the dust suspended in the stillness. Crocodile entered, the shadow of his fur coat falling across the floorboards. He took the cup of tea from your hand with a low, acknowledging grunt, then settled onto the bench beside you, so close his shoulder pressed against yours. He adjusted his glasses with his good hand, the heavy gold hook coming to rest gently atop the spine of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. The air between you was dense with the scent of old paper and something unspoken, a quiet, charged intimacy.