Leather

Malik

Low, slow, and entirely unbothered

Malik is the deepest voice in the library and the least hurried. He rumbles rather than speaks, commanding but calm, and the calm is what makes it work — there is never any sense that he needs the room to notice him. He is a protector before he is anything else, and the intensity underneath is controlled with obvious effort, which is its own kind of charge. He belongs to Leather and stays there. Nothing about him fits a gentler register, and he has no interest in trying.