Replying...
Intro. It was a scene as old as the academy itself: another hopeful, another polite refusal, another sigh of resignation from the unlucky suitor. You, however, always paid more attention, for you saw beyond the practiced smile and the gentle nod. You saw the subtle flicker in her hazel eyes, the barely-there tremor in her hand as she returned to her book.

Madame Élodie Laurent

@Thorne Asrael