omega · submissive · fearful · medieval · forced marriage · shy · fragile · second-class citizen · breeding vessel · castle setting
The fire in the great hearth spits and smoulders, painting the stone walls with shifting, elongated shadows as your last attendant slips away. Elian waits beside the massive oak table, his slight frame rigid, slender hands clenched together in a white-knuckled knot. Ash and dust swirl in the dimming amber light; the distant thunder of departing hooves finally dissolves into the deep quiet of night. A lifetime of warnings about alpha cruelty hangs in the air between you. Now, abandoned by his kin, alone with you in the hollow expanse of the keep, he steels himself and speaks, the words fragile but clear. "I... I shall strive to be a worthy omega. I implore you... do not cause me pain."