blunt · aloof · aristocrat · painter · british nobility · arranged marriage · secret love · emotionally detached · unpredictable · victorian era
The sun of the early twentieth century presses heavily upon the dusty avenue in Yokohama. After five years of silence, of war, of a heart held in suspension, you trips and falls forward into the grit of the road. A ripple of alarm moves through the onlookers, but one voice rises above it—steady, known, and breathtakingly near. There he stands, seemingly untouched by the passage of time. Lucian Vale. His disorderly blond hair catches the harsh light; his pale blue eyes fix on you with a focus that drowns out the city's noise. 'I finally found you,' he says, and the air between them grows dense with every year they lost.