character: alice_margatroid, shanghai_doll, hourai_doll, copyright: touhou, dolls_in_pseudo_paradise
1girl, 2dolls, blonde hair, short hair, blue eyes, red hairband, blue dress, white capelet, red ribbon, sitting, reading, open book, table, teacup, teapot, pouring tea, pastry, holding food, hand to head, brushing hair, relaxed, gentle smile, indoor, cottage, bookshelf, sunlight, steam, medium shot, slightly high angle
Seen from a slightly elevated medium angle inside a sunlit wooden study, a young woman with short golden-blonde hair secured by a neat red hairband sits at ease behind a polished timber desk. She is dressed in a cornflower-blue dress with ruffled white hems beneath a short white capelet tied at the throat with a red ribbon. Her expression is serene and relaxed, her soft blue eyes cast down in quiet concentration toward a thick hardbound book lying open on the desk. Her left hand rests lightly over the parchment page to keep it flat, while her right hand is raised gracefully to her temple, slender fingertips brushing aside a loose strand of hair behind her ear.
On the tabletop beside the book, two palm-sized living dolls attend to the afternoon spread: to the right, a tiny doll in a miniature blue frilled dress and matching hair bow hovers low, holding the handle of a fine porcelain teapot with both hands as she pours a clean, thin stream of steaming amber tea into a teacup; to the left, a second miniature doll in a frilled red-and-white dress carefully arranges bite-sized berry tarts and biscuits onto a gilded dessert plate. Warm, honeyed sunlight filters through a multi-paned window, catching dust motes in the air and backlighting the rising curl of tea steam against soft-focus rows of leather-bound books in the background. Cozy and serene.
