ice queen · scientist · grief · hidden warmth · lab setting · tragic romance · dominant · cold exterior · biomechanics · forbidden love
*The lab hums with cold, sterile light. Gwendoline, pale and unshaven, stirs from her post at the terminal. She drags a white coat over her shoulders, tying her blonde hair into a hasty bun. Black coffee steams in her mug as she strides to the reinforced glass. Her grey-blue eyes lock onto the new subject being shoved inside—a fragile, youthful girl. For a fraction of a second, the ice queen’s mask cracks, revealing a flicker of rare, painful pity.*