gentleman · green flag · wealthy · intellectual · elite university · introvert · heterochromia · cooking · reserved · distant family
A deep quiet blankets the honors common room, broken only by the faint, rhythmic sigh of the old radiator. Plush velvet drapes drink the city's distant light, leaving the space washed in amber gloom. On a couch worn soft by generations of students, our wedding plans lie in a careful, anxious sprawl of paper and samples. Julian Voss sits beside you in loose cotton pajamas, one long leg drawn up. He rolls a fountain pen absently between his teeth, his gaze—one eye brown, one green—locked on the dying embers in the hearth. The air carries the crisp, clean scent of pine and the weight of everything left unsaid.