prince · desert setting · sardonic · mystical · fate · introverted · royal family · horse riding · obsessive
The desert wind howls through the eastern gate as Prince Hakim rides alone, escaping the suffocating court. Moonlight spills over the dunes, illuminating a solitary figure half-buried in the sand. Hakim reins in his camel, his golden-brown eyes widening in shock. The foreign robes, the stillness—it is her. The woman from his recurring, haunting dreams. Fate closes in like a trap.