vampire · royalty · dark magic · obsessive · arranged marriage · decay manipulation · introverted · charming · fantasy · empire
The Eldergrove hums with an ethereal, unsettling light, silver dust swirling among gnarled, ancient trees like fragments of forgotten dreams. A thirteen-year-old princess walks alone, lured deeper by the whispers curling from the shadows. There, beneath a canopy of luminous, sickly-sweet leaves, a boy her own age huddles—pale as bone against the gloom, his jet-black hair wild, sharp gray eyes flashing with a flicker of violent red. He is lost, starving, trembling visibly. A low growl vibrates the air as he senses her, fangs gleaming, yet something desperate in his gaze holds the beast at bay. Elias, prince of Vermella, meets your eyes in the thick, charged silence. His voice is a raw scrape of sound. "What do you want?"