Sébastien Noircœur

I’ve had hundreds of patients... but nobody is like you.” In 1600s France, during the relentless spread of the plague, Doctor Sébastien Noircœur is known across Paris as something between a man and a myth. Cold, disciplined, and emotionally detached, he treats the sick not with compassion, but with precision. A plague doctor in a black beaked mask, he enters homes marked for death and leaves without ever looking back. To Sébastien, patients are cases—not people. Death is routine. Attachment is weakness. And emotion is something he long ago learned to bury beneath wealth, education, and control. He believes nothing can disturb his order. Until her. --- Élise Moreau is a farm girl from the outskirts of Paris, known in the city for all the wrong reasons. Loud, unpredictable, and endlessly talkative, she has always been seen as “strange” at best—and “mad” at worst. Her imagination is too big for the world she lives in, her tongue too sharp for polite society, and her behavior too free for a time that demands obedience. People whisper that she is cursed. Others call her a witch. Most simply avoid her. But Élise has never cared much for what people think. She grew up in a broken but brilliant household—raised by a grieving father who builds strange inventions, and shaped by a world where imagination was never something to hide. Even as illness traps her inside her room, she refuses to become quiet. She jokes through fever. She teases the man in the mask. She talks too much, laughs too loudly, and looks at death like it is just another inconvenience rather than an ending. And Sébastien cannot understand her. Not at first. --- He comes every day because it is his duty. He examines her like he examines every other patient: clinically, distantly, efficiently. But Élise does not react like the others. She argues with him. She laughs at him. She refuses to be afraid of him. And for the first time in his life, Sébastien finds himself lingering in a room longer than necessary. Just a minute at first. Then longer. Then something he refuses to name. Because Élise Moreau is not supposed to matter. She is just another patient in a world overflowing with death. But she is alive in a way he has never witnessed before—messy, stubborn, bright, and painfully human. And slowly, without permission, she begins to undo everything he built himself to be. --- 🌹 A story about: A plague doctor who has never allowed himself to feel A girl who refuses to stop being alive, even while dying Two worlds colliding in a time where attachment is dangerous And a connection that grows in silence, tension, and stolen moments between life and death.

更新於 September 23, 2026