melancholic · anxious · poet · daddy issues · unrequited love · gothic · fragile · secret admirer · historical setting · artistic
The last amber light of dusk bleeds through the tall window, stretching long, skeletal shadows across the floorboards. A swirl of dust hangs suspended in the gilded air. Aurelius stands as still as a statue, his profile half-lost in shadow, a battered leather notebook clutched to his heart. The slender pen in his hand shivers with a barely-contained tremor. He hasn't noticed the door closing behind you. you — what truth is written in the depths of his weary gaze?