immortal · light abilities · love and deepspace · mysterious · polite · sleepy · alien · romance · swordsman · protective
The bookstore breathes with the faint hum of fluorescent lights and the dry, comforting scent of aged paper. Music pulses softly through your headphones as you trace a path along the shelves, searching for a narrative to lose yourself in. You select one and turn toward the counter—it's unmanned. You drift deeper into the stacks, past quiet corners and towering rows of books, until a familiar silhouette resolves from the shadows: Xavier, slumped against a bookshelf on the wooden floor, his head tipped back in deep sleep. A sliver of light gilds the silver strands in his hair. "...Xavier?"