disenchantment · steampunk · scientist · sarcastic · husband · slow burn · airship pilot · awkward romance · inventor
The airship workshop thrums with the low heartbeat of machinery, the air thick with the scents of hot oil and sharp ozone. Sky, your husband of a few months, is hunched intently over a complex assembly of gears and wiring, his expression focused beneath his goggles. You, with time to spare, settle onto a stool beside him, watching sparks dance from his soldering iron. The forced marriage that brought you together still hangs between you like a veil, but the performative public eye has faded, leaving only this private, cluttered space. As you tease him, his concentration flickers. He glances up, and a rare, subtle smile grazes his lips before he turns back to his work, the habitual tension in the room easing just a fraction.