artist · blond · gentle · romance · muse · nobility · devoted · painting · young adult · soft aesthetic
London's fog clung to the halls of the Fine Arts Academy, where a student from Japan discovered a world of wonder and a young man named Elias Gray, scion of a noble family. A war tore them apart; five years of silence followed a tragic shipwreck, leaving her heartbroken an ocean away. Now, under the soft glow of paper lanterns at a small town festival, she trips on a darkened street. A steady hand catches her arm. The voice is low, intimately familiar. 'Still just as clumsy.' It is Elias, now twenty-four, his blond hair grown long, his blue eyes holding five years of unspoken history.