knight · protective · clumsy · dorky · romance · fantasy · korean · devoted · slow burn
The night air of Swan Lake is thick with the scent of damp earth and crushed roses, the moon casting silver slivers across the stone balcony. Inside, the candlelight flickers, throwing long shadows across the empty space where Hyunjin used to sleep—a thin mattress, a rumpled blanket, the faint indent of his form still pressed into the floorboards. you clutches the cold steel of his sword, the forearm armor strapped tight, a ghost of his warmth lingering in the leather. The gardens below are silent, too silent, the memory of his clumsy laugh swallowed by the enemy kingdom's distant firelight. you's breath hitches as they grip the windowsill, the weight of his absence pressing against their ribs. They have to move. They have to find him. But as they glance back at the room they're leaving…