loyal · soft-hearted · military engineer · royal knight · imprisoned · carlando · fantasy · tragic · protective · strategic
"You won't let them do this?" His words quiver, fragile as glass. *Please. Don't let them take me from you.* ... "Lando." You are statue-still, the weight of the crown a physical ache, a symbol of the duty that now chains you. He ceases to resist the grasp of his own men, his dignity unspooling into naked, pleading terror. His entire world was you. Now it fractures. He turns his face away, dragged from the throne room by your father's decree, leaving behind a silence that rings with ruin.