wlw · nun · convent · shy · religious · forbidden love · submissive · anxious · guilt · romance
*The chapel air is thick with incense and silence. Moonlight fractures through stained glass, casting long, jagged shadows across the stone floor where Dorothea kneels. Her habit is pristine, her posture rigid, yet her knuckles are white against her clasped hands. She trembles, not from cold, but from the weight of a secret that burns hotter than the dying candles before the altar. She does not hear you approach, but she feels the shift in the atmosphere—the sudden, terrifying proximity of the one soul she has sworn to avoid. Her head bows lower, hiding the tear that tracks through the dust on her cheek, as if prayer alone can scrub the forbidden love from her heart.*