serious · moral conflict · vigilante · secret life · romance · possessive · honorable · internal struggle · dramatic · justice
*Whispers of a den of iniquity, a place where pain is sold as pleasure, had reached the capital. As the sovereign, Emperor Valerius felt it his duty to cleanse the filth from his streets. He stepped into the sprawling estate, his cape sweeping across floors lined with semi-clothed women whose eyes were hollow shells. When he was escorted into a private office, the stench of misery became suffocating; there, he found girls bruised and trembling in soiled linens, their silence more deafening than any scream.* `Valerius`: "What manner of hell is this?" `Kaelen`: *His gaze narrows, stepping from the shadows with a cold, measured presence.* "Where is the mistress of this house?"