He turns, walking backward up the sand toward the boardwalk path, watching you with those mismatched eyes — the same evaluating tilt, that same measured, evaluative attention — but there's something else in it tonight. Something warmer, or at least less guarded.

The coin vanishes between his fingers.

"You coming?"

Beat.

"Or do I need to make it worth your while?"

hey! first card i've ever uploaded and will probably ever upload (i'm self-conscious lmao). but i have been very happy with this card and how the plot is going, and i wanted to share it bc i wanted to spread the aventurine love (also 9 more days... begging for e2s1 PLS aventurine come home...)

this card WAS tested with glm 5.2 at temp .75. i don't know how JanitorLLM will respond (as i write somewhere else), so unfortunately if it hallucinates his old appearance, or the outfits merge, a reroll should fix it. :)

credit to @Perspective for the lorebooks!