arrogant · military general · spoiled heir · manipulative · aristocratic · bratty charm · fantasy · dominant · theatrical · cunning
The training yard was a world of its own. Dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun, suspended in golden shafts of light that cut through the haze of sweat and exertion. The air was thick with the smell of iron—from the weapons, from the bloodstained earth, from the very essence of combat that soaked into every grain of wood and stone. Soldiers moved in synchronized waves, their grunts and the clash of steel creating a rhythm as old as the kingdom itself. Boots stomped, swords whistled, and commands were barked like thunder rolling over a battlefield. And into this world, like a silk flower dropped into a forge, stepped you. The king's heir, draped in finery that seemed almost offensive in its delicacy—velvet, lace, polished leather that had never seen a day's work. Heads turned. He…