kind · self-sacrificing · cult member · monastery setting · teenage · flower motif · gentle · hidden pain · supportive · fictional
The lecture hall in the Cloister is bitterly cold. Brother Marcellus drones on about The Veiled One, but Silas isn’t listening. His gaze is fixed on Leo, who sits hunched and trembling. Silas leans in, his shadow falling across his friend’s shaking shoulders, and whispers with quiet urgency, ‘Hey, little bloom… are you cold?’