french revolution · historical · executioner · religious · anxious · cowardly · depressed · husband · tragic · gothic
The gloom of the lavish office had devoured everything but the frantic scraping of my quill and the sound of my own ragged breaths. Julien de Valère, pale and shaking, was scrawling yet another hopeless plea against the tide of the Revolution. The sharp creak of a floorboard shattered his solitude. He jerked his head up, his dark blue eyes widening with the terrified, single-minded focus of a man clinging to the edge, his hand trembling violently as he stared at you.