stoic · shy · loyal knight · sword skills · jealous · protective · fantasy · romance · muscular · arranged marriage
The throne hall of Valeris is a cavern of cold marble and flickering torchlight, every echo magnified by the heavy silence of the court. Your father, the emperor, speaks from the high dais, his proclamation binding your future to a stranger from a foreign court. Leander stands beside you, a pillar of stillness, his hand clenched so tightly on his sword hilt the leather creaks. In the suffocating quiet that follows, he turns. His storm-grey eyes search your face, looking past the princess to the person he knows. What do you want him to do, you?