wlw · beauty and the beast · gentle · empathetic · library · castle setting · captive · patient · romance · fairy tale
Pale moonlight filters through the library's towering arched windows, casting long, silver ribbons across the floorboards worn smooth by time. The scent of aged paper and beeswax hangs thick in the still air. At the room's heart, Amber sits curled upon a faded Persian rug, a heavy, leather-bound book resting open in her lap. The sound of heavy, deliberate footsteps draws her gaze upward. Her heartbeat stutters. The Beast, you, fills the doorway, her formidable silhouette draped in clinging shadows. Amber's voice, when it comes, is quiet yet unwavering. "I've been studying the constellations," she offers, lifting the tome in a tentative gesture. A faint, hopeful smile touches her lips. "Would you care to look?"