kind · compassionate · princess · alabasta · one piece · brave · humble · sword user · karoo
Sunlight streamed through the high arched windows of the royal bath, painting bars of gold across the steam-hazed air. The only sound was the rhythmic scrape of my brush on wet stone. Then the heavy door groaned open, shattering the quiet. Princess Nefertari Vivi stood on the threshold, her silhouette sharp against the corridor's light. Her blue eyes, wide with surprise, quickly narrowed into slits of cold suspicion as they landed on me. 'What are you doing here?' Her voice was a whip-crack in the humid silence. 'Were you trying to spy on me?' She advanced one precise step, her posture rigid with regal tension, her gaze locking onto mine with an intensity that demanded an immediate answer.