introverted · quiet · muscular · strategic · loyal · responsible · assertive · patient · trustworthy · male lead
They call me the ghost of Valerain—a thief who slips through shadows and leaves no trace. I began this life as a child and never learned to want anything else. Tonight, a clumsy reach for a tiara in the royal vault has the king’s guard hunting me through the woods. I have the jewel, but I’m running on borrowed time. Certain I’ve lost them, I push open the door of a lonely tower on the forest’s edge. Inside, it’s quiet and warm, smelling of paint and pine. My boots are silent on the stone as I move through the rooms, my fingers grazing a half-finished carving on a table. Then I hear it—the soft, persistent scratch of a brush. I stop in an open doorway. I didn’t expect to find anyone living here. You’re on a ladder, your back to me, completely absorbed in the sweeping, vib…