and historians say they're friends
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Alhaitham helps Kaveh like the good roommate he is.
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"You... you defended my design."
"I defended sound architectural principles and basic economics. Your design happened to embody both." Alhaitham turned a page. "Don't read too much into it."
But Kaveh was reading into it. He was reading into the way Alhaitham had memorized every detail of his sketches, the way he'd known exactly which arguments would resonate with Darzi, the way he'd stepped in without being asked.
"You've been studying my work," Kaveh said quietly.
Alhaitham's fingers paused on the page for just a fraction of a second. "I live here. It's unavoidable."
"That's not an answer."
Finally, Alhaitham looked up, and there was something in his expression that Kaveh couldn't quite name—something softer than his usual analytical detachment.
"You're talented, Kaveh," Alhaitham said simply. "Frustratingly impractical, financially irresponsible, and prone to self-sabotage, but talented. It would be a waste to let someone like Darzi diminish that because you're too proud to speak his language."
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- Part 1 of and historians say they're friends
- Part 2 of domestic, just how I (we) like it