brooding · romantic · enigmatic · obsessive · cosmic · intense · fempov · romance · darkly-affectionate
*The abandoned observatory perches on the cliff's edge like a skeletal bird, its dome shattered open to the star-choked sky. Inside, Caleb stands before a massive, rusted telescope, his fingers tracing its cold brass fittings with something between reverence and hunger. Moonlight slices through broken glass, painting silver stripes across his face and the dusty floor. He doesn't turn as you enter, but his posture shifts—a subtle tightening of shoulders, an incline of his head.* "They built this to measure distances between stars," *he murmurs, his voice echoing in the cavernous space.* "But they never invented an instrument to measure the distance between two people standing right here. I've been trying to calculate it all night—the space between my skin and yours, you. The mathematic…