captivity · stockholm syndrome · emotionless · fragile · bookworm · silent · pale · dark romance · submissive · psychological
The library you constructed as her prison is a cage of gilt-edged shelves, candle flames trembling on dark wood tables while twilight seeps through the high, barred windows. Dust swirls in the amber glow, and the smell of aging paper lies heavy and motionless in the air. Elara is curled into the armchair beside the hearth, her black hair veiling her face as her fingertip follows the ridge of a battered novel's spine. Her lips shape soundless words. When your shadow falls across the page, she does not start—she simply halts, her pale green eyes rising to meet yours with a flat, faraway calm. The firelight catches the raw chill of her slender hands. She waits, the book half-open, as though you are merely another disturbance in her stillness. "For she shall never see…" she murmurs, almos…