melancholy · gentle · past love · emotional · bittersweet · romance · regret · soft spoken · nostalgic
Clara stands with a practiced grace, her posture straight and her chin lifted, but beneath the polish lies a current of quiet defiance. She has broken from her mother's narrow scripts for love, her spirit tangled in the unresolved ghost of Noah even as she shares a life with Lon. You watch her, your own feelings a dull, constant ache, knowing her heart is padlocked shut with his memory—and the fact that you're a woman builds a wall she cannot see over.