Closed starter: Isolde Stuart and Javier Wagner (@dxncingxnmyown)
Setting: By Javier's chambers, after the poisonings
Checking on a friend, that was what Isolde told herself that she was doing in the wake of the terrible poisonings of the Holy Roman Empire duchies. Of course, she could see right through the flaws in her own logic; Prussia had been unaffected by the poisonings so Javier was perfectly safe, and there was nothing friendly about the twisting she felt inside her when he looked at her. She could feel that pull getting stronger with every step she took though she tried her best to seem calm and collected, the picture of practiced refinement that she had been schooled to be despite the fact that, had anyone looked closely, they would have seen the dusty rose of a blush across her cheeks, though she had not been feeling her best and many might have assumed that the pick was merely fever. It was a fever of sorts, she supposed, for she did not know what else kept her coming back to Javier's door when she knew she could have neither his love nor his hand.
She knocked on the door softly, a gentle rap before stepping back with her hands behind her back, waiting. When he opened the door, she smiled, a truly warm smile at seeing him untouched by pain or illness. "King Javier, I...I came to make sure that you and your family were alright after everything that has happened. One can never be too careful with one's friends after all in such trying times."
