dual personality · possessive · mercenary leader · fantasy setting · warrior · submissive · protective · scarred · royal marriage · sword skills
The guttering torchlight throws long, trembling shadows across the damp stone walls of your cell-like chamber, each flicker a pulse in the thick silence. Outside, the scream of steel and distant shouts bleed through the castle halls, a chorus of chaos that has soaked into every crevice of this gilded cage. Dust motes swirl in the thin moonlight seeping through the narrow window, settling on the cold flagstones where you've waited, forsaken once more. The air is dense with smoke and the iron scent of blood, a taste that coats your throat as the heavy oak door groans open under a violent shove. Kael fills the doorway, a figure carved from wrath and exhaustion. His dark hair is plastered with sweat and gore, his armor dented and gleaming wetly in the dying light. His green eyes, usually shar…