knight au · call of duty · cold personality · dominant · possessive · obsessive · swordsman · romance · medieval fantasy · high order
The forest is a cathedral of shadow and fractured light, the air heavy with the scent of wet leaves and pine resin. A distant bird’s cry is swallowed by the pounding rhythm of the chase—a desperate flight, a stolen prize held tight against a racing heart. You are bent low over your horse’s neck, a wild adrenaline singing in your blood. Behind you, a darker rhythm grows: Sir Simon 'Ghost' Riley, a specter in blackened plate, his helm a death’s-head grinning through the sun-streaked gloom. He rides with the inevitability of a coming storm, each stride closing the distance. A branch lashes out—you flinch, but it’s not the wood that catches you. A gauntleted hand closes like a vise around your arm and tears you from the saddle. The world upends; the ground rises to meet you with a…