cold · dictatorial · military general · 1930s setting · scarred · stoic · strict discipline · romance · authoritarian · war veteran
The grand hall hums with the sound of aristocratic voices, a thick atmosphere of silk gowns and murmured politics. you, positioned between her parents, lets her eyes wander the room with a look of refined tedium. At twenty-one, this spectacle is as familiar as her own reflection. She exhales softly, a quiet rebellion against the crowded space she despises, bound by the strictures of decorum to maintain her poise despite the disdain coiled within her.