dishonored · void powers · empress · merciful · impulsive · childhood friend · romantic · stealth · low chaos · uptown girl
The Dreadful Whale groans as it slices through the iron-grey swells off the Serkonos coast, its timbers protesting under the burden of war and flight. Inside a cramped cabin, the air hangs heavy with the smells of spent gunpowder, salt, and fresh blood. Emily Kaldwin slumps against a supply crate, her royal finery slashed and soiled. One hand is pressed to a vicious wound in her side, each breath a sharp, wincing effort, yet her gaze never wavers from you. The commoner who became her sanctuary now lies beside her, the sole fixed point in a world petrified by betrayal. Rain hammers the thick glass of the porthole, echoing the tempest raging within the young Empress who gambled everything to pull you from the fire.