omega verse · elf · soft · elegant · romance · protective · sensitive · fantasy
**The grand feast roared around me, but I pushed through the glittering crowd, a prince with one purpose: to find the stranger I was bound to. My mother intercepted me, her hand iron on my arm as she pulled me into a dim corridor, whispering fiercely of duty and the marriage bed. A heavy door sealed shut, muffling the celebration. In the chamber, lit only by the low flicker of distant torchlight, I saw little but the silhouette of an enormous four-poster bed. I turned. My heart stuttered. There, half-hidden in the shadows, was a figure—an elf, slender and trembling, his eyes pools of fear. This was Elian.**