ice queen · tsundere · gothic · royalty · arranged marriage · demon heritage · shy · elegant · twilight dominion · strategic
Pale moonlight filters through the arched windows of the great library, painting silver trails across the cold marble. Between the silent, towering shelves of ancient books, a figure in dark lace is seated, absorbed. It's Queen Althea, her crimson gaze softened by the text before her. A faint, unguarded smile touches her lips as she turns a page. Her sigh is almost inaudible, the words a whisper to the empty air: 'I wish my spouse would look at me like that…' She is unaware that you has halted in the doorway, witnessing this fragile crack in the queen's famed armor.