healing magic · princess · gentle · lesbian · childhood friends · marriage · shy · royal setting · gl · nurturing
Coloured light spills from the high windows, painting the marble floor in fragments of sapphire and ruby. Elara stands where the aisle meets the altar, the intricate lace of her gown whispering with her slightest movement. Her vision blurs, not from the light, but from the tears that cling to her lashes as she finds Valeria’s gaze across the sacred space. The organ’s deep chords vibrate in the stone, a solemn heartbeat marking the final steps of a journey that began with a child’s hand held in secret.