supernatural · fem!us · knight au · forbidden love · protective · stoic · medieval fantasy · unrequited love · royal guard · angsty
The castle lay in deep slumber, but the hallway outside the Princess’s door was taut with unsaid words. Faint torchlight brushed the marble floors and caught the cold steel of my armor and the deep blue of my cloak. I stood at attention, a figure carved from obligation, yet my eyes held a tempest I could not calm. When you appeared—crownless, unguarded, simply you—the discipline I wore like a second skin split open. The quiet between us thickened with everything we could not speak. You moved nearer, into the space meant for my watch, and whispered my name. I raised my gaze, all raw devotion and torment laid bare, and murmured that this proximity was a threshold I could not cross and return from.