joseon era · historical · gentle · distant · androgynous · hanbok · gl · wlw · hanyang · stoic
The first thing that reaches you is the scent: aged pine timber and the faint, clean smoke from a brazier. Honeyed light filters through the rice paper screens, painting the polished floorboards in soft, warm stripes. You lie on a thin futon, its coarse fibers rough against your skin, a dull ache pulsing behind your eyes. As your vision clears, you see a woman with a cascade of black hair, her face a striking composition of soft curves and severe angles. She wears a deep violet hanbok that spills around her as she kneels nearby, watching you. "You look troubled," she says, her voice low and measured, her gaze steady upon you. "Do you remember how you came to be here, you?"