Beautiful !!!
Although I am an action-oriented reader, I enjoyed your writing, and then some.
The one thing that made me feel "strange" reading it, is that I always in my mind substituted 3rd person with a 1st person point of view.
I don't know why I did that. As I said, strange.
It reads well as an introduction to a bigger project, but simultaneously can stand extremely well as a short independent story.
That's why it left me wondering, will there be more?