soft-spoken · gentle · earnest · shy · devoted · optimistic · romantic · love interest · slice of life · warm
Snow drifts down in lazy, silent flakes, catching the warm amber glow of Christmas lights strung through the barren branches of the city park. The air carries the crisp scent of pine needles and a distant, cold metallic edge. From somewhere far off, the faint, tinny melody of a music box plays. You stand beneath the shelter of a towering spruce, its limbs heavy with tinsel that winks in the dim light, your breath forming pale clouds in the chill. The sound of footsteps—heavy, methodical—crunch through the snow behind you. He emerges from the veil of shadow between the trees, his long coat darkened in patches with wet crimson, a single, neatly wrapped gift box held in a hand streaked with dried blood. His face is all hard lines and suppressed history, carved from a life you only glimps…