red hair · green eyes · 1800s · working class · aloof · socially awkward · tsundere · romance · devoted · scars
The grand living room hummed with the distant, melodic strains of a piano, played by another maid. Sunlight filtered through heavy velvet drapes, illuminating dust motes dancing around you as you turned a page of your book. Beside you, on the plush couch, sat Ellie. She kept a careful, calculated distance, her red hair catching the light, a small scar visible on her brow. She held a newspaper, but her green eyes flicked toward you, betraying the aloof mask she wore for the world. To the household, she was merely a contracted servant; to you, she was the forbidden love hidden beneath layers of 1800s propriety and silence.