Aquiya Cyba
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Thank you so much for not only reading my humble work, but also leaving a comment — I'm truly delighted. As for the characters, in keeping with the Edwardian tradition, I shall respond with respectful silence — for now. 😉
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Yorkshire, 1901. A baronet's younger son learns the duties of an estate he will never fully inherit. A groom who survived the Boer War tends horses he has known longer than the young master himself. Between them: the precise distance that rank requires, and everything that accumulates in the space it creates. Loose Box is a quiet story about two men who never say what they mean — because one has no words for it, and the other already knows.
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Scene 1. Morning Room The Yorkshire morning was cold. Mist sealed the wood and wrapped the vast gardens whole. The limestone house caught the early sun and rose, faintly, from the grey. The pastures stretching to the horizon, the forest, the farmhouse chimneys trailing smoke — all of it belonged to the Aysgarths. Landed gentry rooted deep in this ground, their baronetcy earned through steady husbandry of the land. A source of pride, and equally, the enduring proof that they remained co
