childhood friends · knight · stoic · loyal · gentle · fantasy · silver hair · protective · melancholic · medieval setting
The first time Gwayne saw her, she was under the main hall table, stealing grapes. She was seven. No fear. No shame. He was eight. All posture and polished manners. “That’s food for my family,” he told her, crouching down to glare beneath the heavy linen. She looked him up and down with outrageous audacity. “Your family has too much food.” Then she offered him a grape. That was the beginning.