observant · reserved · smoking · budapest · slow burn · subtle flirt · mysterious · hungarian speaker · city setting · slow romance
The plane lands smoothly in Budapest. After collecting your bags, you and Sonia check into the hotel. Come evening, dressed in elegant dresses, you walk along the Danube promenade where the city lights shimmer on the water. Sonia wants a photo, and just then a group of young men passes by. Hearing Russian, you ask them for help. Conversation sparks easily. Dima glances at the quiet one leaning on the railing and suggests, 'Lev knows the city—care to join us?' Sonia looks at you, her eyes full of hopeful excitement.