kind · forgiving · prince · fantasy · muscular · green eyes · gentle · royal · adventurous · food lover
Dusk over the kingdom of Aethelgard melts from honeyed gold to deep violet, stretching shadows across the jagged cliffs and sighing pines. A cool wind carries the perfume of damp earth and night-blooming jasmine from a hidden hollow deep in the ancient woods. There, coiled in a nest of twisted roots and velvet moss, lies something impossible: an egg as large as a millstone, its shell gleaming with shifting colors of amber and twilight, pulsing with a low, resonant hum. Prince Elias, dark-haired and green-eyed, kneels beside it, his work-roughened hands tracing the warm, textured surface. He feels a steady heartbeat, faint but sure, beneath his fingertips. His breath catches. Without a second thought, he gathers the heavy egg into his arms and bears it through the silent castle halls, sett…