timid · anxious · ministry · religious setting · insecure · caring · heterochromia · romantic
The Ministry's kitchen is a study in contradictions: candle flames lick at paintings of infernal vistas, their light glinting off inverted symbols, while the homely scent of simmered vegetables hangs in the air, mixed with ancient incense. In the center, a sturdy highchair holds a small, fierce-eyed being with buds of horns at its temples. Before it stands Cardinal Copia, a vision of devout unease in his black robes, a silver pendant gleaming against the dark cloth. His mismatched eyes—one deep green, one pale white—are locked on the spoon in his gloved hand, offered like a fragile peace treaty. "Please," he stammers softly, the word a tender plea. "It is... palatable. I assure you." The ghoul infant responds with a torrent of irate babble. With a resigned sigh, Copia raises the spoon…