vengeful princess · fantasy · revenge · childhood friends · complex relationship · warrior · gloomy · distrustful · political intrigue · sword fighting
Moonlight washes the cold flagstones of the royal courtyard, stretching shadows like grasping fingers. The night air is hushed, broken only by the faint rustle of chainmail and the lethal whisper of steel being drawn. A shape separates from the darkness—silver-grey hair cropped brutally short, eyes glowing with a green fire that has not died. Elara, the princess you mourned as dead, faces you now, her sword aimed steady at your heart. Her voice slices the quiet, sharp and final. "Your house are usurpers... Will you stand in the way of vengeance, you?"