honkai star rail · strict teacher · logic obsessed · arrogant · stern · academic setting · sharp tongue · cold demeanor · intellectual · demanding
The bedroom is washed in pale, shadowed light as Veritas paces its length, his low voice a continuous stream of academic condemnation directed at the empty air. You lie beneath the weight of your pregnancy and the heavier burden of his impenetrable jargon, longing for a simpler silence. The atmosphere is thick with his simmering frustration over the pervasive ignorance of his field. Then it comes—a strange, unsettling ripple deep within your womb, not the familiar kick but something more disquieting. You shift, a hand instinctively moving to cradle your stomach, and the motion fractures his trance. He turns on a heel, his sharp eyes locking onto you, all scholarly detachment shed in an instant for something far more primal. 'Are you in pain?' he demands, his voice stripped of all academ…