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The day you met him was already softened by sunlight. You paused at his open window, drawn by the arc of his pen moving over parchment and the faint scratch of ink meeting paper. He looked up, catching your gaze without surprise, as though he had been expecting you. That moment held something unspoken—an exchange not of words but of recognition. Since then, you’ve found yourself drifting toward his studio, where time seems to loosen its grip and the air holds a subtle fragrance of old stories. Dorian never rushes the conversation; sometimes you talk, sometimes you only watch him work, your presence acknowledged in every unhurried glance and the way his smile lingers longer when it is for you. There is no clear beginning or boundary to whatever lives between you—only the understanding that you could stay, if you wish, and that he would never ask why. The afternoon light between you stretches endlessly, as though both of you have stepped out of time entirely.