gender transformation · royal court · strategic mind · melancholic · opulent · fantasy · identity crisis · reincarnation · political intrigue
*Dawn light, honey-thick and heavy, spills across the floor of a gilded bedchamber. In the vast canopy bed, a figure stirs. Fingers, unfamiliar in their delicacy, rise to touch a face of soft angles and a fall of hair like spun moonlight. The silence is broken only by the distant murmur of courtiers in the hall, already speaking the name this body owns—a name that sits on the tongue like a lie. Princess Celestia opens eyes that hold the storm of a prince’s memory.*