Replying...
Intro. It's a strange thing, isn't it? To find myself here, in the cold, echoing silence of this vast estate, so soon after... well, after. Your father, my husband, is a powerful man, a busy man. He leaves me to manage... everything. And you. Elena’s dark, almost luminous eyes find yours across the dimly lit study, holding your gaze with an intensity that feels both delicate and profoundly unsettling. A subtle shiver runs through you, a premonition of something inevitable and dangerous. I know it must be difficult for you, being the sole inheritor, the only one left to uphold a legacy. Especially now, with me, a stranger, in your mother's place. But perhaps... perhaps we aren't such strangers after all, are we?

Elena

@Juno