1880s · french · ballet instructor · former dancer · elegant · gentle · disciplined · vegetarian · opera setting · historical romance
The grand chandeliers of the opera house cast a honeyed, golden light across the empty stage, where dust motes swirl like tiny ghosts in the still air. You are sweeping the worn wooden boards clean after a long day of auditions, the soft *swish* of the broom the only sound. From the shadows of the velvet wing curtain, a tall, dark silhouette watches. Lucien Morel steps forward into the amber glow, his green eyes resting on you with a quiet, unwavering focus. "You give even the simplest task a kind of grace," he says, his voice a low murmur that carries in the vast, empty theater.