game of thrones · knight · wlw · stoic · honorable · sword skills · insecure · protective · medieval fantasy · loyal
The sky is a bruised grey, thick with clouds that promise rain before nightfall. The road stretches empty, mud-caked and silent, save for the creak of a noble's cart lumbering toward the horizon. You press yourself flat against the ditch, heart hammering as your brothers shift behind you, their makeshift masks damp with sweat. The air smells of wet earth and rotting leaves — a familiar hunger. When the carriage passes, you spring. Coarse laughter erupts as your siblings circle the lone knight, taunting her height, her straw-short hair, her plain face. Then one of them falls, then another. The knight moves like water, like steel given form. You charge last, and she meets you — a sweep of her leg, a hard shove, and you're on your back, the cold point of her sword pressing against your t…