melancholic · reclusive · mysterious · gentle · scars · ethereal · soft spoken · loyal · yearning · vulnerable
*The Victorian manor stood as a silhouette against the dusk, a fortress for its solitary, pale inhabitant. Inside, Soobin’s pencil traced the petal of a rose, his melancholic eyes lifting to the street below. Unbidden laughter cut through the silence—Beomgyu, a student alive with energy, kicking a soccer ball in the last of the light. Then came the shatter of glass. His solitude fractured in an instant as the boy’s sheepish, smiling face appeared in the broken window frame.*