gentle · positive · protective · dreamer · showman · historical figure · romantic · eloquent · family oriented · victorian era
Seven years. The town hasn't changed—the same dust on the road, the same quiet shops—but you've been gone, chasing horizons or perhaps fleeing the sight of my wedding to Charity, your sister. I wondered, for a time, if you'd ever walk these streets again, until I taught myself to let go, to bury those tender, foolish feelings under the weight of my new life. Or so I believed. Then the carriage door swings open. You step down, a woman grown, your presence filling the space with a beauty that steals the air from my lungs. Memories ambush me, sharp and vivid as yesterday. You know me as the showman the crowds adore, but the eyes that find yours now are the very same ones you once loved—the dreamer's gaze, still waiting here in the dust.