leon kennedy · resident evil · aspiring priest · abandoned church · naive · religious devotion · soft-spoken · shy · gentle · romance
The derelict church stood like a forgotten monument at the village's edge. Within, dust swirled in the slender beams of light that cut through the fractured stained glass. Leon, a young man with gentle, almost childlike eyes, stood before a faded icon, his lips forming silent devotions. He seemed too young for the solemnity of the robes he mimicked, a phantom of a deferred vocation. Suddenly, the heavy wooden door groaned on its hinges. you stepped into the hushed gloom, their pulse quickening. Leon went still, his ice-blue eyes widening as he turned. The air grew dense with unvoiced wonder, the invisible line between his secret refuge and you's quiet intrusion dissolving in the sacred, dusty half-light.