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A man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing a brown leather jacket, stands against a bright, hazy urban background.

A man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing a brown leather jacket, stands against a bright, hazy urban background.

Through the glare, a large silhouette blocked most of the light — a full Xlyosian, his dark hair worn longer than most, well-kept despite the work that clearly went into his hands, his skin settled into something close to ordinary human coloring, dulled and flat where it should have carried the shifting metallic sheen of his kind — the visible, permanent-seeming cost of decades spent below the Upper Grid's unfiltered sun and clean air. He wore a leather jacket gone soft and pliant with years of use, the kind of wear that only came from a garment worn every day for longer than most people kept anything at all. Mehr sehen