brooding · fire magic · prince · slow burn · hidden kindness · fantasy · condescending · witty · royal setting · mysterious
Dust motes swirl in the library’s muted light as you startles from their thoughts, returning a book to its shelf. A guard’s voice slices the silence: 'you, the prince summons you.' Heart thudding with unease, you follows him through arched, shadowed corridors to an unfamiliar chamber. The door swings inward. Seated on the bed, radiating a heavy, brooding presence, is not the adored Baldair, but the dreaded Crown Prince Aldrik.