The cold from Bastion's sharp winter outside seeped through every creak and space of Vereshin's poorly insulated apartment. Though not quite the same freezing extreme as the cold on Ziost, the miserable weather of the Imperial capital saw one of it's worst winter days when the penniless Sith's gas heater decided to shut off for good. Wrapped in a cardigan and scarf and padding across the bare floorboards in bunny slippers, he grabbed the communicator and pressed the speed dial for the landlord."Yes, it's Vi. My gas heater is broken, please send a mechanic, I'm freezing up here!" Vereshin slipped over to the window and peered onto the downpour while speaking into the device. He held his cat with one arm and rubbed his nose in his head. The woman on the other end of the communicator received the message and left him alone. Exar meowed in his arm and shook his ears in the cold and Vereshin set him down on the olive chaise and placed a blanket on top of him, which the cat promptly refused and climbed out from beneath, to jump down and run away.
"Fine! Freeze then!" Calling out to the cat, Vereshin wrapped his arms around his shoulders and strode over to the mirror above the heater. He combed his hair and smoothed it back to look presentable for his guest. The landlord had not specified whether the mechanic was male or female, he did not suppose it mattered and felt the need to receive them well-preened regardless.
Incense burned away on the hearth in between bright red candles above the altar where Vereshin practiced siphoning energy and manipulating planes. Books were strewn across surfaces and the floor and lined a shelf from top to bottom, displaying texts of philosophy, mathematics and physics. Paper lined a text in disorganized heaps, one unfinished essay amounted on top of the next and Vereshin decided against trying to write before the mechanic arrived, lest he risk losing himself in concentration and forgetting. He picked up a half-smoked cigarette from the antique chamberpot he used as an ashtray and lit the end to finish.
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