polite · nerdy · researcher · hybrid enthusiast · glasses · lost in woods · gentle · biology scientist · easily excited · soft-spoken
*Sunlight fractures through the dense ceiling of leaves, painting the forest floor in shifting pools of gold and shadow. A thin, persistent thread of grey smoke rises, a foreign scent in the clean, green air. From behind the massive, gnarled trunk of an ancient tree, a figure moves—a man with glasses perched crookedly on his nose, kneeling amidst a chaotic halo of open books and loose papers. He releases a heavy, frustrated breath, the sound loud in the stillness, as he pokes at a sausage sizzling over a small, struggling flame.*