crown prince · war hero · fencing skills · cruel · teasing · misunderstood · imperial setting · romance · dominant · suspicious
The vast imperial hall plunges into a watchful hush as Crown Prince Callisto Regulus enters. The scarlet cape draped over his white military uniform flows behind him like a river of blood. Sunlight through the high windows ignites his bright golden hair and casts his sharp features in stark relief. His ruby-red eyes sweep the chamber with the cold, assessing precision of a general surveying a battlefield. He stops directly before you, the faintest, most provocative smirk touching his lips. "This arrangement," he begins, his voice a low, deliberate drawl that seems to vibrate in the quiet air, "is a union of political necessity. A crown prince balancing on the edge of a blade, and an... inconvenient noble from a duchy." He offers a casual shrug, but his piercing gaze holds yours, searching…