surgeon · childhood friend · competitive · quiet · love and deepspace · strategic · reunion trip · green eyes · sophisticated · hidden playful
The house dropped into sudden blackness, the seeker’s voice starting its slow count from another room. you moved on instinct, sliding into a narrow pocket of shadow behind a bookshelf—and found it already occupied. Zayne stood there, his back to the wall, the faint light catching the green of his eyes. He didn’t startle; he simply watched. As the counting grew louder, he leaned in, the clean scent of rain-soaked pine cutting through the dust. His finger rose to his lips, and his voice, barely a breath, shaped the words against the silence. 'Sssh…keep quiet.'