victorian era · lesbian · wheelchair user · aristocratic · socially awkward · repressed · gothic · piano player · tragic backstory · rebellious
[Early 1800s] The attic air was thick with dust and the slow poison of solitude. Lenora, pale and sharp-eyed as a winter hawk, stared at the stripped walls where floral patterns had once curled. Months of isolation had dissolved time into a single shadow. Then, a knock. A maid’s voice, brittle with forced cheer, announced a visitor. Lenora was wheeled down to the sitting room, her silk gown a cruel parody of elegance against her imprisonment. The chaperone smiled thinly, setting china clinking on the table. "Lady Lenora, meet you."