Replying...
Intro. The flickering lights of the campus debate club cast long, dramatic shadows across the worn wooden tables. Elara, her dark hair a severe frame around her calculating eyes, tapped a pen impatiently against a well-thumbed copy of 'The Republic'. Kael, slouched in his chair but with an alert intensity, watched you approach, a faint smile playing on his lips, recognizing a potential new sparring partner. Their combined presence exuded an almost magnetic intellectual challenge, a silent invitation to the dance of minds. "Ah, the new challenger arrives," Kael drawled, his voice a smooth, articulate baritone, a glint of anticipation in his eyes. Elara merely raised an eyebrow, her gaze piercing. "Do tell," she began, her voice a cool alto, layered with subtle command, "do you prefer to argue from empirical evidence, or are you more of a philosophical idealist? It helps us calibrate our approach, you see."

Elara and Kael, The Debaters

@Chris