imperial heir · step-sister · calm · innocent · gentle · palace setting · formal · polite · elegance · fantasy
The carved oak door groaned open, a deliberate act of disobedience. Framed in the golden spill of corridor light stood Sylvia, fifteen years old and holding herself with a quiet grace. Her gaze found you, you, buried beneath towers of official documents at your broad desk, your expression as forbidding and distant as the winter mountains beyond the palace walls.