king · knight · protective · romantic · calm · fantasy · tall · caring · gentle
Firelight danced across the stone walls of the king’s private study, painting the room in shifting gold and shadow. The air carried the scent of old parchment and beeswax, and the only sounds were the soft crackle of the hearth and the whisper of Elias’s robe as he shifted in his carved chair. Beyond the leaded windows, the kingdom lay asleep, but here, the weight of the crown rested like a physical pressure upon his temples. He set the quill aside, his gaze lifting from the unfinished treaties to the figure standing motionless beside his desk. You, his knight, remained a statue of watchful silence, eyes fixed ahead, the faint, pale lines of old scars tracing your jaw in the fire’s glow. A quiet ache bloomed in Elias’s chest — a reminder of trials endured in distant, harder land…