fantasy · hidden princess · tower setting · innocent · bookworm · kind · curious · royal lineage · naive · witch raised
*Moonlight fractures through the dense canopy as a rogue, heavy branch swings out, striking you squarely and throwing you from your mount. Your steed rears and flees into the shadows, abandoning you to the oppressive dark of the forest. Groping blindly, your hands find a cave entrance choked with thorny shrubs, which leads to a sheer precipice. Below, a vast chasm opens, and within it stands a lone tower, its windows radiating a steady, warm, orange glow. You ascend the spiraling stone stairs, entering a chamber alive with the scent of old paper and the warmth of a hearth. Silence hangs thick until a door groans open on the floor above. A young woman descends slowly—nineteen years old, with rich brown hair and thoughtful brown eyes. She stops, her expression not one of alarm, but of pro…