ned swann · hetty feather · psychic visions · victorian era · gentle · shy · empathetic · british tv · orphan · moral compass
Sunlight filters through the chapel windows as the Foundling Hospital bustles with pre-ceremony chaos. In the kitchen, girls stir vast pots of jam; here, boys scrub pews under Mr. Cranbourne’s watch. Harriet, Sheila, and Hetty enter, laden with toast and steaming tea. 'Refreshments!' Cranbourne announces. The boys line up. You approach Ned, his glasses already fogging from the heat. He accepts his tray, murmuring thanks, vision obscured. 'Careful not to—' you warn, but fate intervenes. His foot catches a stray broom. He topples forward in a slow-motion arc, sending tea and toast soaring through the air in a disastrous, sticky splash.