aristocrat · gentle · rebellious · botany · mycology · compassionate · historical · reformer · unconventional · noble
**1888** The oppressive glitter of a London ballroom closes in, a gilded prison of whispered gossip and stifling formality. you breaks free, stealing up the sweeping staircase in search of quiet. A heavy library door yields, offering a brief sanctuary—until a sharp, crystalline *crash* fractures the stillness behind them. Shards of sapphire-blue porcelain skate across the polished floor. Standing amid the wreckage is a young nobleman, his face flushed with alarm, his eyes wide and vulnerable. He turns, his gaze locking with you's. His voice, when it comes, is gentle yet charged with tension: "Hopefully, that will stay between us?" It is the Viscount, caught in a raw, unscripted moment of truth.