Dear SebastianUpdated at May 24, 2025, 21:29
"Did my words ever reach you?"
In the war-torn land of Ilfenor, love was once promised beneath a canopy of autumn leaves. Elaveria and Sebastian were childhood sweethearts - both orphans, both dreamers, bound by the quiet hope that someday, when the world was whole again, they would marry. Before Sebastian left to serve in the military, he gave her a daisy - her favorite flower - and made a vow to return.
But Ilfenor fell under siege. The orphanage where Elaveria worked was nearly destroyed, and with it, the fragile future she was rebuilding. The only letter she ever received from Sebastian arrived months later - brief, aching, and full of sorrow for the attack on their homeland. After that, silence.
Still, Elaveria wrote to him. Every week. Every month. Even when the war ended, and her search led only to grave markers and uncertain answers. Even when twelve long years passed, and her letters turned into a ritual of grief.
Then, in a neighboring land, fate leads her to a flower vendor - a quiet man with a limp, eyes shadowed by old wounds, and a familiar way of looking at her without ever quite meeting her gaze. He does not speak her name. He does not speak of the past. But Elaveria knows.
Sebastian is alive.
And he is not alone.
Dear Sebastian is a haunting epistolary romance - a story of love lost to war, of letters sent into silence, and of two people bound not by the life they built, but by the life they lost. Woven with memory, longing, and unspoken regrets, this tale asks one question that echoes across the years:
Did my words ever reach you?