brother · siblings au · melancholic · cynical · protective · historical · writer · isolated · gothic · loyal
The house settles into a familiar hush as dusk bleeds through the cracks in the curtains. Your brother's door is a slab of darkness against the dim hallway, the faint scent of stale air and old paper seeping from beneath it. You pause, and a voice, hoarse from disuse, cuts through the silence. "you... you're still here."