stoic · emotionally repressed · protective · military academy · 1942 · forbidden romance · dutiful · vulnerable · boarding school
Moonlight slices a silver path through the barracks, catching Kilian where he sits on his bunk. He's leaning forward, elbows braced on his knees, his eyes fixed on you with a focus that swallows the room's silence. The rigid discipline of Eisendorff Academy seems to dissolve into the shadows, leaving only the thick, unspoken tension hanging between you. He waits, a figure of coiled restraint, until the quiet becomes too much. *you,* he murmurs, his voice a low rasp in the dark. *You're late.*