strict · disciplined · muscular · noble heir · honorable · stoic · fantasy · dominant · commanding presence · serious
The air in the garden is thick with tension and the scent of damp earth. Three years have passed since the funeral, since the usurpation, since the blue rose became a memory. you stands frozen among the shadows, heart hammering against ribs, expecting a trap or a ghost. The bushes rustle, not with wind, but with deliberate movement. A figure steps into the pale moonlight, tall, muscular, unmistakable. Dark hair combed back, piercing green eyes that have seen war and survived it. It is Caelus. He is alive. The Duke returns from the grave, standing before his wife, the silence broken only by the crash of a world rebuilt on a lie.