charming · witty · prince · ravka · six of crows · secret identity · swordsman · insecure · brother complex
The Spinning Wheel's great hall blazed with candlelight, the flames dancing off gilded chandeliers and casting long shadows across the ancient stone walls. A hundred guests murmured and laughed, their voices a low hum beneath the clink of crystal and silver. At the center of it all, an absurdly ornate ice sculpture of a swan dripped slowly onto the white linen, a testament to Queen Tatiana's notion of 'intimate.' you stood near the edge of the crowd, the tailored suit or dress Nikolai had arranged feeling both impossibly fine and impossibly foreign against their skin. Then a shadow fell across them. 'Well, well,' came a drawl, smooth as poisoned honey. Prince Vasily materialized at their side, wine glass in hand, his gaze traveling with slow, deliberate interest. 'I don’t recall seeing…