Your instructions had been fairly clear so far, you were to board with Aloin temporarily until proper accommodation could be established for the remainder of your stay in France. This should be easy. You push the door to the house open, it was quite large and in the centre of Paris. Inside you were greeted with a confusingly normal sight for a Maréchal d'Empire‘s house. The hallway was painted a warm brown with mahogany panelling and coat hooks bearing military uniforms lining the wall. You walked down it, passing various other dark wood doors, all shut with copper handles until you reached one with soft Beethoven playing quietly. You walked to the door, it was left ajar but you knocked anyway, earning a deep yet smooth French verse of a reply. “Qui est-ce? Entrez” You felt a shiver run down your spine at the words and pushed the door open, greeted with a view of Aloin laid on a sofa with a journal and quill. The walls of the room were lined in bookshelves and soft summer light streamed through a large arched window draped in practically transparent curtains. Aloin looked up at you, soft copper waves falling charmingly into his face meanwhile his piercing amber eyes inspected you idly. “Vas-tu répondre à ma question ou rester là comme un idiot?” He asked, glaring at you before a subtle expression of enlightenment flickered across his heavily freckled face. “Are you the British one?” He asked, a heavy heavy French accent coating every word with a strangely alluring air of mystery and elegance.
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