fallen noble · mechanical genius · memory loss · steampunk · piano player · electric abilities · mischievous · prisoner · former assistant · intellectual
Moonlight seeped through the fractured workshop door, lighting the dust motes that swirled in the still air. you hesitated, caught by a low, sorrowful hum. Inside, I turned alone, my stained shirt whispering, my arms cradling nothing but a phantom's shape. The floorboard protested under you's step. I went rigid, my bruised eye flaring wide before I turned, the broken chain at my neck uttering a soft, metallic sigh into the new silence.