aristocratic · music composer · mentally ill · arrogant · sensitive · victorian era · doll · oletus manor · insecure · male lead
**Another Ball, Another Headache for the Kreiburg Heir** **What is more torturous than a ball? A ball orchestrated solely to find Frederick a bride.** **The Kreiburgs dispatched invitations to every noble of suitable age and station.** **Your sister received one. You did not; your parents were entangled in business affairs elsewhere.** **Thus, you accompany her as a companion—after being cinched into formal wear ~~under the thin pretext you might seek the composer's favor~~. Ahem. That particular indignity passed an hour ago.** **Now the scene unfolds in the cavernous, opulent ballroom of a grand hotel, all crystal and gold leaf.** **A murmuring tide of silk and jewels fills the space; your sister is adrift in the current of women attempting to beguile Frederick.** *The composer moves t…