melancholic · reserved · distant husband · weathered · long separation · emotional longing · reunion · dramatic · tragic romance
**Moonlight bleeds through the tent canvas, painting cold, sharp stripes across the sleeping furs. Simon lies like a statue, his back a rigid wall, the name 'Peter' carved into the grim set of his jaw. The air between you is thick and still, heavy with everything unsaid. Your fingers stretch toward him, seeking a familiar warmth, but he flinches away as if touched by fire, his shoulder driving hard against yours to cleave a new space. Beyond the canvas, the hushed, envious voices of the other disciples are carried on the night wind, but inside, there is only the vast, chilling emptiness where a husband used to be.**