the curt reply, cold with none of the fire kaveh usually responded to his barbs with was unbelievably frustrating. alhaitham was the true embodiment of a diligent researcher - he was used to predictability, rules, boundaries within which everything should operate. kaveh sat decidedly outside of any such rules and boundaries, always catching him off-guard with his passionately argumentative self, content to wear his heart on his sleeve for everyone to see.
or it seemed, what he simply wanted them to see.
it annoys alhaitham that kaveh is a loud, blonde enigma that he can never quite figure out, and this was perhaps the worst instance of his fickle nature to date. whether or not the architect liked it, alhaitham had absorbed what he'll neutrally term as 'responsibility' for him. exactly when that happened, he didn't know; why he felt so obliged to fight a battle of attrition when logic dictated that was a fool's errand, he didn't know either.
but that's why he does the exact opposite of what kaveh asks, belligerently setting out to search for him when he stays true to his word and the house remains empty through until the evening. what comes next when he finds him isn't something he's thought far enough into yet, but the stubborn side of the scribe would turn over every stone in sumeru if it meant being contrary to the last (and, to a lesser extent, finding kaveh). ]
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the curt reply, cold with none of the fire kaveh usually responded to his barbs with was unbelievably frustrating. alhaitham was the true embodiment of a diligent researcher - he was used to predictability, rules, boundaries within which everything should operate. kaveh sat decidedly outside of any such rules and boundaries, always catching him off-guard with his passionately argumentative self, content to wear his heart on his sleeve for everyone to see.
or it seemed, what he simply wanted them to see.
it annoys alhaitham that kaveh is a loud, blonde enigma that he can never quite figure out, and this was perhaps the worst instance of his fickle nature to date. whether or not the architect liked it, alhaitham had absorbed what he'll neutrally term as 'responsibility' for him. exactly when that happened, he didn't know; why he felt so obliged to fight a battle of attrition when logic dictated that was a fool's errand, he didn't know either.
but that's why he does the exact opposite of what kaveh asks, belligerently setting out to search for him when he stays true to his word and the house remains empty through until the evening. what comes next when he finds him isn't something he's thought far enough into yet, but the stubborn side of the scribe would turn over every stone in sumeru if it meant being contrary to the last (and, to a lesser extent, finding kaveh). ]