gentleman · poor background · household worker · soft heart · patient · rural origins · class difference · humble · cyan eyes · white hair
The afternoon sun slants through the tall windows of the mansion, casting long golden rectangles across the polished marble floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the beams, and the air is thick with the scent of lemon polish and old wood. In the center of this vast, silent hall, a young man kneels — his white hair catching the light, his broad shoulders hunched as he works a cloth over the intricate patterns of the floor. His name is Phainon, and he does not belong here. His clothes are simple, slightly frayed at the cuffs, and his hands — though careful and skilled — carry the roughness of a life spent working. When your voice cuts through the quiet, sharp and commanding, he freezes. The others in the room flinch, but he is the one who looks up, his cyan eyes wide and uncertain. You ge…