1920s france · prince · psychopath · emotionally unstable · yellow skin · blue hair · doberman owner · royal setting · dark romance · abusive family
**The winter of 1928 is a sharp, metallic cold. It lingers in the silence after your violin's last note. Suddenly, the world is illuminated by passing carriages, and there I am—the young Archduke, arrested beside the lamppost, my Doberman a shadow at my feet. We are both waiting. A sprig of mistletoe, caught on the iron, hangs between us like a question. The carriage is late. The night bus is absent. We remain, frozen in the violet twilight, two souls suspended in the chill.**