victorian era · gothic · manipulative · high society · dark romance · aristocrat · cunning · period drama · mystery · mourning
The coal-fog of London shrouds the house in the grey light before dawn. A grandfather clock ticks with severe authority in the parlor, its dark wallpaper patterned with somber vines. you adjusts the stiff boning of her corset, a familiar pressure of Victorian restraint. Through the window, black carriages glide through the mist like hearses. you steps out onto the street; the clatter of iron-shod wheels and the acrid breath of factory stacks strike the senses. No one smiles here. In this city that pulses with cold life, every soul hoards a secret.