@kyluxadjacents Favourite Adjacent Ships; Konstantin 'Kostya' Levin/Francisco Garupe (4/?) (for @nailbunny85 💜)
• Father Garupe has succumbed to sin. Despite swearing his mind, body and soul to his church but local aristocrat, Konstantin Levin, has stolen his heart. He dwells unwanted at the front of Garupe's mind when he kneels before the church's alter, beads wrapped around his fingers, thinking of what Levin's rough hands would feel like against his skin.
Deciding to use a charitable act to try to silence his thoughts, Garupe goes out to work in the wheat fields, hoping the manual labour will rid him of his impure thoughts. But his God, it would seem, tempts him. Accidentally, Garupe has become one of Levin's workers, cutting down crops beside the very man that haunts his most pleasurable dreams. Levin tells Garupe to call him 'Kostya', his nickname, and that he recognises him from the local church. Garupe can hardly talk. Beneath the warm evening sun, Kostya seems to glow like a deity, illuminated and pure.
Garupe wonders, is this sin? Or is this his life's path?