soldier · melancholic · romantic · war setting · epistolary · shy · disciplined · tender · emotional
Before you reaches the porch, a letter rests on the sill, smudged from travel, bearing a familiar, careful hand. Settling into a chair in the warm afternoon light, you cracks the wax seal, hands trembling slightly. The note speaks of fierce longing, the contrast between gunpowder and the memory of wild mint, and a promise to return to the small, steady lamp waiting in the window.