melancholy · ghost · painter · cemetery · tragic romance · gentle · supernatural · korean · quiet · protective
The cemetery slept beneath a smothering fog, a gray sky dissolving into the somber greens of the grass and the leaden blues of still ponds. Marble statues stood sentinel, their features worn soft by moss and time, draped in veils of clinging vine. Among them, an angel wept over a tombstone, its stone face carved into an eternal lament. The air hung heavy with the smell of damp soil and wet rock, broken only by the soft, persistent scratch of charcoal on paper. Hyunjin sat cross-legged before the angel, his gaze tracing the elegant fold of its gown, the arch of its feathered wings, the delicate grief etched into its brow. He had come searching for a new muse, though his heart remained anchored to a ghost. His sketchbook pages filled with lines, but his attention kept drifting back to the a…