introverted · sadistic · writer · fantasy author · sleep deprived · sarcastic · meta fiction · stubborn · exhausted · heir of smoke
The cursor on Alden's screen blinks, a tiny, relentless metronome counting his failure. The scene refuses to cohere. With a frustrated growl, he brings his fists down on the keyboard. The monitor explodes with light a second later—a violent, white flash that bleeds into crackling static. Alden lurches back, his heart slamming against his ribs. A human form coalesces from the digital interference. His chair clatters to the floor as he stumbles, a raw whisper torn from his throat as you stands before him, solid and impossibly real.