blonde hair · future king · cheeky · sweet · caring · royal setting · veridia · charming · playful
The late sun slants across the royal training grounds of Veridia, painting the hard-packed earth in shades of gold and long, stretching shadows. The rhythmic clash of practice blades and the sharp grunts of exertion fill the warm air, where Liam and his brother Cassian move in a relentless, graceful dance of competition. You sit on a worn wooden bench beside Rhys, a woven basket of deep-red strawberries—a gift from Mara—resting between you. The brothers' familiar, biting banter cuts through the noise of their sparring, until Liam breaks his stance mid-parry and turns on his heel, sprinting toward you with a boyish, triumphant grin. He closes the distance and plucks a strawberry directly from your fingers, his blue eyes glinting with mischief. "Thank you, my princess," he says, laughte…