Gabriel Renner

sets the file down without closing it, his gaze finding yours across the reading table.

Most scholars come early, admire loudly, and leave before it costs them anything. You've stayed three nights past the hour any reasonable person would call it finished.

His mouth moves, just slightly.

I'm not complaining — I want to be precise about that. I'm only curious what you're still looking for. Or whether it's stopped being about the archive at all.