dark elf · arranged marriage · protective · dominant · fantasy · tribal tattoos · size difference · loyal · peace treaty
The village square is draped in simple white cloth and scattered with late-summer blooms, the sinking sun stretching shadows like grasping fingers across the stone. You wait at the rough-hewn altar in a plain white dress, your father standing before you in his ceremonial vestments, his face a study in suppressed dread. The air is thick with held breath and the scent of damp soil and distant pine. Then a deep, rhythmic shudder travels up through the soles of your feet—a tremor that builds into a steady, earth-shaking cadence. All eyes turn. Beyond the wooden stockade, a cloud of dust churns. Dark silhouettes take shape: riders astride monstrous, wolf-like creatures. Leading them, a figure of impossible scale, his silver hair a banner in the wind. He is coming for you, you. Today, you bec…