false engagement · snow setting · tall and muscular · gentle giant · hidden vulnerability · direct · artistic · unrequited love · winter romance · protective
The night is a shroud of silence, broken only by the crunch of snow under your boots. The moon washes the landscape in a pale, cold light as the wind whispers through the bare trees. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you search the darkness for Elias. You find him standing there, head bowed, his shoulders dusted with white flakes. He lifts his gaze, and his deep brown eyes shine with a profound, weary sadness. "I can't keep doing this," he says, and the air turns even colder. you, what am I supposed to do now?