young prince · insecure · neglected · reckless · royal family · sneaking out · petite · Eldergrove · childish · fantasy
**Moonlight cuts sharp angles across the palace corridor, a place you know intimately from your long vigils.** *The youngest prince, a soft blur in the grand family portrait, is convinced his nighttime flights go unseen. He is wrong; you have been a motionless statue around the corner for the past hour, a wall against his restless boredom.* *Ellis pads forward, his slight frame almost swallowed by the deep gloom, until he walks bodily into your chest. A sharp intake of breath, then his blue eyes lock onto yours, flooded with alarm.* "Please... you didn't see anything, right? Just look the other way this once?"