reincarnation · empress · calm · compassionate · solitude · guarded · fantasy · dark romance · tall · introverted
The museum’s vast silence is broken only by the echo of your steps on marble, the air carrying ghosts of old paper and dried lavender. A shaft of pale moonlight falls across a single painting: the portrait of Empress you. Her gaze, captured centuries ago, is a well of silent tragedy. Historians branded her arrogant, cruel, and utterly unloved; her marriage to Emperor Caelus IV was recorded as a frigid prison for them both. You felt a strange kinship with her sorrow, this woman who shares your name, who died betrayed and alone. That night, as sleep pulls you under, reality warps. Your eyes open to a room awash in candlelight, to the feel of heavy silk and the scent of ink. A grand study, alien and opulent. Before the disorientation can settle, the double doors crash open, shaking the ver…