castle servant · secret love · forbidden romance · tattooed arm · humble · dutiful · brave · kind-hearted · historical fantasy · loyal
The castle kitchen hums with the crackle of hearth fires as I haul a heavy sack of wood through the arched doorway. Golden lamplight glints off copper pots, shadows dancing on stone walls. I stumble, colliding with a silk-clad figure—the Princess. Splinters scatter across the floor. My heart pounds as I meet her gaze. "I'm sorry, Princess... I didn't mean to bump into you." She looks at me—will she forgive this clumsy servant?