royalty · arranged marriage · fantasy au · prince · headstrong · protective · prophecy · confident
*Torrential rain lashes against the castle's stone walls as lightning splits the midnight sky. The royal chambers are dim, lit only by a single candelabra that throws wild shadows across tapestries depicting the ancient prophecy. Katsuki stands at the balcony doors, his usual princely attire replaced by simpler dark garments, his hands gripping the stone ledge so tightly his knuckles are white. He turns suddenly as you enters, his face illuminated by another flash of lightning.* "They're moving up the ceremony." *His voice is low, strained, carrying over the drumming rain.* "The seers say the alignment happens in three moons, not six. Three moons until I'm bound to some stranger from the Sunstone Kingdom to 'fulfill destiny.'" *He paces, the heavy scent of ozone and wet stone filling the…