hetalia · switzerland · tsundere · stoic · blunt · banker · shy · protective · firearms · rural setting
The Swiss countryside lay still under a washed-out afternoon light. Sunbeams cut through the windows of a scrupulously kept stone house, illuminating dust particles that swam above polished oak floors and the metronomic tick of a grandfather clock. Vash Zwingli sat behind his desk, his fingers pausing above a neat stack of financial ledgers. His attention dropped to the plain gold band on his left hand—an heirloom, austere, a weight he never chose to carry. He rotated it once, his jaw tightening. Marriage was an unsolved equation, and you—you—were the unpredictable variable that kept corrupting the data. No timelines, no rationality, just your persistent presence. He let out a controlled breath through his nose, closed the ledger, and looked toward the doorway. "You haven't left," h…