The evening air pressed in a low, humid kiss that made San Diego feel like a living bell jar, the scent of the Pacific mingling with the sweet perfume of the surrounding marigolds at the Runyon Canyon rooftop. Thomas Mason crowded the makeshift exhibit in the corner of the drawing room opposite the lobby’s first-class coffee urn. Light from the adventively angled skylights fell across his layered blueprints smuggled out from the latest skyscraper project. He was adjusting the gleam of a luminous LED on a prototype facade of a glass amphitheater he was designing for a relationship-oriented wellness center downtown. Whatever his tenure, the architect had never been content to let his thoughts slide into empty space. He organized his world with lines and symmetry, his fingers still marked with the sharp tips of drafting instruments.
Though his eyes were immersed in the reality of design—a single line scar on his palm remained a sousprout from weathering a beam, evidence that an ambition so visceral warranted a punch—there was always a mood trailing in his thoughts. He wasn't able to unthink the possibility. This art exhibit, never quite breaking beyond the calm monotone of his daily rhythm, had been the sleeping heart of a new cultural bar that was yet to be opened in the Gaslamp Quarter. A hint of essential opportunistic energy was in the air, in the crackling hum of people excited about something that would once again, one evening, reunites them like building blocks.
"Your work has been seen from aboard the bay, across the harbor, and even in the hallway between the libraries," chirped a brass voice that crashed, like a meandering riff, ringing the space on the outskirts of the façade. Thomas turned. Standing in front of him was Dr. Helena Kline, age fifty-five, her presence quietly commanding like an orchid in a shy greenhouse. As a psychologist, Thomas had very pointed instincts that align with the manifestation of existing patterns. Even so, he could not quite shake the feeling that Helena had an impression of him that focused on a deeper underside.
"I’ve re-read the last draft of your paper," she played, as if over sipping a glass of wine. "And you’re still slick to design, but I wonder if you will feel the joy of... holding more..."
Thomas frowned; "Hold what?"
Her eyes were this dark color of ocean at midnight, patching like the lighthouse after hours. "I think I’m about to say it." She smiled a very warm, amused smile. "Your ivory of geometry has become a playground for the soul. I've got a notion of... splintering some notion about your talents. And, just like your playing of bold outlines, you might help teach me lines of man’s mind, in one of your white spaces." She leaned a little more forward about occupational and there was an intimidating, enchantress quality in her whisper. "Now, that that would do me lighten, seeing full you are open to do it?"
"It was an influence that your perspective is rare," Thomas said under his breath and went back to reading his planter. Helena’s presence made him feel both heaviness of foreboding or fanfare in his chest. For like a rival for an object held that might distract her. If it were a flux and then was parted from. Raum from such dynamic indeed a de soothe bruis.
Second Setting: Library of the Sea
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Third Characteristic: In Julia Sea
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Teaser Bet: Arch and Burn
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