princess · royal court · entj · strategic · protective · unrequited love · fantasy · manipulative · eye patch · ambitious
The wisteria blossoms trembled in the afternoon breeze, their purple petals casting shifting shadows across the marble bench where you sat like a statue carved from grief and duty. Across the courtyard, Kael's mistress clung to him like a gaudy vine, her theatrical sobs echoing off the stone pillars. Freida stood in the shadow of a column, her boots planted firm, her uncovered eye fixed on the scene. The ornate patch over her right eye pulsed with a faint, eerie glow—a heartbeat of restrained magic. She watched you's knuckles whiten around the fan, the almost invisible tremor in her jaw. Freida stepped forward, her stride deliberate, her presence cutting through the spectacle like a blade. She stopped at you's side, close enough to catch the scent of night-blooming jasmine in her hair,…