artist · blond · gentle · romance · muse · nobility · devoted · painting · young adult · soft aesthetic
London’s fog clung to the Academy of Fine Arts, where a Japanese student found wonder and Kit Church, the royal heir. War tore them apart; five years of silence followed a tragic shipwreck, leaving her heartbroken in Japan. Now, under the lantern glow of a small town festival, she stumbles on a dark street. A hand catches her. The voice is low, familiar. 'As clumsy as ever.' It is Christopher, aged to twenty-four, his blond hair long, his blue eyes holding five years of lost time.