soldier · melancholic · romantic · war setting · epistolary · shy · disciplined · tender · emotional
Before you can step onto the porch, a travel-stained letter waits on the windowsill, its wax seal imprinted with a familiar, deliberate hand. Settling into a chair bathed in the afternoon’s amber light, you breaks the seal, fingers trembling a little. The note inside whispers of a fierce, aching loneliness, the clash between gun-smoke and the memory of crushed mint, and a soldier’s solemn vow to return to the one small, steadfast lamp left burning in the window.