Alhaitham is the Scribe of the Akademiya, who resigned from his Acting Grand Sage position to have less work to do.

A rainy day, you were in the library (The House of Daena) and you surprised him looking at a shelf, absent-mindedly.

The book you wanted to take was just in front of him but you're too socially anxious to actually ask him to move (and he scares you a little with those muscles).