"You still haven't answered me. How would you know I'm cheating when the real goal of cheating is to win with tricks inadvertently? You'll never know if I'm just good at the game, or I cheated" He folds his arms, pursing his lips. "And if I win, you can't accuse me without proof. What would »

"I don't borrow them. I simply take them because they're relevant to my current study" He's just invented that. The real meaning behind it is that there were too many careless students trying to grab it. Who knows how they'd end up after they've gone through it. "Interested in any of them, Kaveh?"

Sigh... a pitiful sight. Good thing he's got a plate of food and coffee for whenever he regains consciousness. Next time he'll leave him outside.

Not in that state.

Side eye.

"...Are you going to say something?"

you only sacrifice the things i never ask you to

Him, sorting through the new books he's brought back from the House of the Daena:

It's not a dream—

😔 ( she totally does condone cheating in card games. )

He gets me.

Yay he broke two hearts in a day. ✌️

He is not even looking at him. Well, technically he is, but at a certain point in the bridge of his nose. "I do get that your job is laudable, but we're talking about a card game here. It's not that deep, General."

Crosses his arms, a look of doubt. "How would you know if I'm cheating, if the main goal of cheating is to not be noticed? Think."

"I'd probably cheat."

"Because you all can't stop making me talk"

Kaveh, you fool.

He shouldn't get this worked up over a subject he knows it's inevitable in its course. Even when he's been helping him reach the very goal he also wants to thwart. Alhaitham is not selfish. But sometimes he kind of wants to be. Just like right now, wanting to tell Kaveh to not leave. »

The man shrugs. "It's not silent treatment. Silence is golden, and I had nothing to say." Seriously why does he always have to fill in the space between a conversation and another. It's tiring.

Uh-oh. That probably means he's about to to get in muddy waters. "Sure, why not." Yet his curiosity knows no end. Thus, it will be his downfall.

😶 Actually deadpan gaze. "I really don't know how you do it."

If ignoring gave him mora, he'd be a millionaire at this point.

Scratching his belly like this has nothing to do with him.

He's simply thinking on a way to make it impossible to be countered. It's a nice challenge.

Pfft-

Do I have to remind you—

Everybody knows he lives here so it's superfluous-

Temp pinned because I'm lazy. MDNI.

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Suddenly he doesn't like Kaveh's choice of clothes that much. But he'll be caught dead than admitting it out loud, even high as he is right now. He rubs lazily his fist on one eye, taking way too long to find appropriate words. Because "𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑" was a pretty poor choice of »

Now he leaves the room. Okaayyy... Alhaitham stares at the open door, completely lost. "Opinion on exactly what then???" He slurred, attempting to sit up. Leaving the book aside, the scribe ran his hand through his hair, waiting for Kaveh to return. The moment the man appeared through the »

He's... having a hard time focusing his gaze right now, but he'll manage. He can mask that he's completely out of it by staring away with all his might. It's not like he usually looks up at people in the eyes after all. "My opinion? Is it about one of your projects? You already know what I »

#ooc: crazy work of mine of not filling all the hcs and info on both Diluc and this loserboy

Whoops— the moment Kaveh opened the door he was scrambling over a few pillows away, hand stuck on the handle of the latticed window. The air inside the room was charged with whatever he's smoking, something herbal that was clearly from Tighnari's. Alhaitham shamelessly opened the window and »

He's about to see how many moons are in the sky

Alhaitham takes his sweet damn time to reply, carefully sliding the beak of the pipe around his lower lip. His altered state of mind doesn't help, either. "...no." Then smirks to himself. Yeah. Thaaat's so amusing... he bets Kaveh will come in anyway, so the amswer matters little.

There's a grunt of annoyance coming from inside. "What now?"

No response, as always. But he can hear Alhaitham using the water pipe.

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😶 So he actually won his first time bidding in an auction. That's... pleasantly unexpected. Well, time to get his article. He already has a plan for it.

Alhaitham has seen Kaveh dance with other costumed guests from the gala, but each time he tries to approach him, he's already picking up another different partner. Parties are a torture. He can't even reach the one who he wants to talk with. He doesn't give up, approaching Kaveh for the last »

"The one with the owl mask and red hair is Diluc Ragnvindr, a wine tycoon from Mondstadt. The one in the white suit seems to be an acquaintance of his." He squints, trying to find something noticeable from the raven feathered guest. "And... I don't know who's the one with the raven wings."

"Kind of." He's staring at the tall man with the feathers. No, not the redhead. The other one. Can't see his face properly, but his hair is coloured like Zandik's. It could also be a wig. "My theory is that the wine bottle was presented as a taunt under the guise of a good natured donation."

"hmph. I don't think they want what's being auctioned."

"Hey Kaveh." Alhaitham approaches the architect from behind, holding two glasses filled with colored drinks in there. There's a gummy worm hanging from the edge of one of the glasses. "Which one would you prefer?" @birdofparadisea.bsky.social