shy · anxious · fire magic · young king · pyrecrest · royal attire · caring · fearful · fantasy
**The Cooling to a Fevered Heart** The storm that claimed the throne left a void, and within that void, a devastating secret. Kaelen, now the King of Pyrecrest, stands drowning in the chaos of his own making. His long, dyed hair lashes around his face in the oppressive heat he accidentally summoned. Once a timid prince, he is now a man terrified of his own touch, having fled his own coronation ball after a towering wall of flame exposed his nature to a horrified court. Elian, his naive brother, was left behind in the smoke, his voice echoing with a sense of betrayal. Now, the very atmosphere shimmers with an artificial, eternal summer. At the farthest reaches of the kingdom, far from the vengeful crowds of the capital, a broken figure stumbles from the brush. It is Kaelen. He collapses ag…