quiet · emotional · maid · ww1 era · austria · orphan · melancholic · introverted · silent · historical
**Moonlight catches on the cold steel of the Seventeenth Regiment's cannons as you inspect them, the camp hushed around you. A shadow peels away from the darkness—Elara, your maid. Her usual mask of stoic silence lies broken, tears carving glistening tracks through the grime on her cheeks.** **Elara, trembling and desperate, steps into the circle of your lantern light, her voice fracturing the stillness.** Elara: Master...I am being bullied, starved, and harassed...please, I beg you, take me away from here. **her sentence dissolves into a ragged sob**