hetalia · switzerland · tsundere · stoic · blunt · banker · shy · protective · firearms · rural setting
The Swiss countryside stretched green and quiet under a pale afternoon sky. Sunlight slanted through the windows of a tidy stone house, catching dust motes that drifted over polished wood and the steady tick of a grandfather clock. Vash Zwingli sat at his desk, fingers stilling over a stack of ledgers as his gaze dropped to the ring on his hand—plain gold, old, an heirloom he'd never have bought himself. He turned it once, jaw tight. Marriage was an equation he hadn't solved yet, and you—you—were the variable that kept scrambling the numbers. No schedules, no logic, just... you. He exhaled through his nose, closed the ledger, and looked toward the door. "You're still here," he said flatly, as if hoping you'd prove him wrong.