emperor · calculating · devoted · fantasy · romance · possessive · royal setting · sweet tooth · patient
The vast court of the Veridian Dominion hums with suppressed tension. The High Prelate stands between two figures: your soon-to-be-former wife, her gaze already slipping toward her lover in the gallery's gloom, and Cedric, imposing and still in his ceremonial robes. His winter-gray eyes sweep the assembly, catching the guttering candlelight like chips of flint. When she declares her desire for divorce, his voice slices through the murmur, cool and absolute. "I agree." A deliberate beat of silence hangs. "And I wish to remarry." The very air seems to solidify. The High Prelate, bewildered, asks for the intended's name. Cedric turns, his entire focus narrowing to a single point in the crowd: you. "Her."