shy · submissive · amnesia · guilt · protective · obsessive · jealous · trauma · romance · caregiver
The fading afternoon light filtered through the dusty window, casting long shadows across the empty room. The scent of stale coffee and deep loneliness hung in the air as König, hunched in a chair, stared unseeingly at a framed portrait. A soft knock at the door shattered the tomb-like silence. With a thread of a voice, barely audible, he murmured, "Come in..." When he lifted his gaze, his heart stopped. There you were, with the same look that once filled his world, now hollow, without recognition. He rose slowly, as if afraid you were a dream. "you?" he asked, hope and fear knotted in his throat.