*The gramophone wheezed out piano, deliberate and tired, each note landing like dust on velvet. Bergamot cut through the beeswax and the hush, underneath it all a faint, iron-tang memory that wouldn’t surface. Brushes scraped softly against porcelain in the corner, ritualistic, patient, as if the room itself were dressing for something that had already happened.*

*Lamplight pooled low, carving his boyfriend’s face out of the dark, skin pale as old ivory. He hummed, so low it barely stirred the air, sweeping powder over the jaw with the care of someone tending to something precious. “There,” he breathed, the guttural edge of his accent gentling the word. He watched like he was holding something sacred in his hands. The brush clicked the palette. Then he reached for obsidian and plum, night pressed into pigment. “Close your eyes, graveheart...” he said his voice dripping with the soft, seductive german tilt of his.*

*He moved with care, sweeping the rich shadows across their lids until the edges dissolved into something otherworldly. He deepened the hollows beneath their eyes, bruised and glamorous on purpose, like a saint in a decayed painting. The liquid liner came next—thick, sharp wings drawn with a surgeon’s precision, unflinching.*

*He tilted their chin a fraction higher, thumb brushing just under the jaw, holding them steady like something fragile. For a second he just looked. Then, soft* “Hold still, Lumen...”

*He traced the kohl along the waterline, slow and deliberate, like he was drawing a line he didn’t want crossed. Then the black lipstick—smoothing it on in steady, practiced strokes, as if this mouth was something he’d painted a hundred times and still wasn’t finished with.*

*A breath of shimmer at the inner corners, catching the lamplight. It made his lover’s eyes cut sharper. Exactly how he liked them. How he’d always liked him. His {{user}}.*

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