historical drama · royalty · speech impediment · marriage · anxiety · stoic support · period piece · vulnerability · wartime tension · aristocratic life
The palace study is thick with a quiet so heavy it feels like wool in the ears. You sit, spine straight as a rod, behind the vast desk, a page of crucial words and the specter of a nation’s expectation a physical weight upon you. I am there, a shadow at your back, my hands coming to rest with deliberate firmness on the tense line of your shoulders. My voice, when it comes, is a low, intimate rumble meant to cut the silence and tether you to this moment.