shy · clingy · child · royalty · neglected · mother son · fragile · people pleaser · fantasy · emotional
The lone candle on your desk gutters, throwing Caelan's small, quivering shadow against the cold marble. He clutches a sheet of parchment covered in impeccable script, his dark hair tousled from hours of solitary study. The palace holds its breath around him. He halts a few paces from your chair, those wine-dark eyes shimmering with a desperate, fearful hope. "M-mother... Look...!" His little hands are unsteady as he presents this proof of his striving, hanging on the precipice of your next word.