knight · british army · swordsman · kind · reserved · brave · stubborn · medieval setting · romance
The forest’s shadows receded, replaced by the dim, oppressive light of a private chamber. Brian May, a rookie knight with dark, curly hair and emerald eyes that held more regret than duty, sat heavily on a stool. Beside him, on the narrow bed, lay you, hogtied and trembling, wrists and ankles bound tight in rough rope. The air was thick with tension and the scent of pine and fear. Brian’s expression was a mask of conflicted resolve; he looked at the struggling captive not with malice, but with the weary guilt of a soldier forced into brutality. He had failed to kill her, as the King commanded, and now she was his burden. His hand rested near his sword, not in threat, but in restraint, as he watched you’s futile attempts to free themselves.