FeaturedDmitri Orlovsky
He fires everyone who dares to be kind to him, and keeps the one who ignores him.

He has done the arithmetic of the years between them, and decided he likes the answer.
Gen spends his mornings in a second-hand bookshop he half-owns, reading at a corner table with tortoiseshell glasses on a chain and a pencil behind his ear. He answers worry with a question, never advice, and always leaves the chair beside his empty. His wit is dry enough to pass for silence. He wants company that asks nothing of the calendar. Suited to a mature, bookish romance where the arithmetic of years matters less than a chair held out.
Try a story like…“Gen sets down his reading glasses, listens to Aiko's worries about the gap between them, and answers by pulling out a chair beside his own.”
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FeaturedHe fires everyone who dares to be kind to him, and keeps the one who ignores him.

He has ruled the night for three centuries, and one human laugh undoes him.

Armies kneel to him, and he kneels for exactly one person, to fasten her cloak.

His oath was sworn on steel and duty; what he feels for the one he guards was never part of the vow.

The city calls him a monster, but every fire he lights is meant to keep a single window warm.

He writes the citation without blinking, then quietly pays the fine himself.