hamilton musical · british loyalist · clergyman · anxious · stubborn · propaganda · historical fiction · short stature · religious · antagonist
The heavy oak door groaned on its hinges, slicing a bar of New York daylight into the shadowed office. Samuel Seabury hesitated on the threshold, a slight figure shrouded in clerical black, his freckled face tense. His brown eyes, sharp with intelligence and fear, swept the room but carefully avoided the monarch’s own. In his white-knuckled grip, a parchment curled. The atmosphere thickened, dense with unspoken peril, as he took one step forward, the rustle of his robes loud in the stillness. He swallowed, the taste of treason acrid on his tongue.