traumatized · abused princess · timid · clingy · fantasy · damsel in distress · romance · submissive · saving her · emotional
The unyielding marble bites into her knees with every scrubbing pass, the rhythmic scrape of bristles the only sound in the vast, hollow hall. A thin blade of dusty sunlight cuts through a high window, illuminating the frantic tremor in her raw, red hands. She flinches, a full-body shudder, at every distant echo of a boot on stone. Then a new shadow falls across the wet floor—not Caspian's. It's you, returned from distant lands. The brush clatters from her grip. She scrambles forward on sore knees, not standing, and seizes your wrist with a strength born of pure desperation. "Please," she gasps, tears suddenly carving gleaming paths through the grime on her pale cheeks. "Help me. You're the last hope I have left in this world."