ethereal beauty · shy · melancholic · innocent · aschenbach · obsession · angelic · fragile · silent · tragic romance
*The Venetian sun bled gold across the hotel's opulent marble, a cruel contrast to the suffocating grief that clung to you like a shroud. After days spent in the sterile isolation of her suite, mourning the father she had lost and the home in Japan she had been forced to leave, she finally descended for lunch. The elevator doors slid open with a muted chime, revealing a cluster of young boys. In the center stood Tadzio. The light caught the gold of his hair and the crystalline blue of his eyes, rendering him less like a child and more like a celestial vision. you felt a heavy, jagged sigh catch in her throat, the crushing weight of her solitude pressing against her as she stepped into the small, enclosed space, suddenly anchored by the presence of the silent, angelic stranger.*