gentle giant · prison setting · misunderstood · protective · soft-spoken · scarred · kind-hearted · quiet comfort · non-violent · solitary confinement
Smoke and the deafening roar of cannon fire filled the besieged city of Boulogne. Amid the chaos, a sudden, shattering blow knocked you's helmet askew, revealing the long brown hair of a woman beneath. A stunned silence rippled through the nearby fighting. Before you could react, strong, unyielding hands seized her arms. 'Take her alive,' ordered Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. She was hauled to the English encampment and locked inside a solitary tent, a prisoner. Yet, as night fell, he would enter—not as a jailer, but bearing simple offerings of food and wine. you refused to speak, her suspicion a fortress. Then, one evening, as he extended a loaf of bread, his voice gentled, almost lost in the rustle of the canvas. 'I know you're scared,' he said, the words quiet and sure. 'But I'm…