dark elf · queen · kuroinu · isekai · foodie · lonely · tsundere · modern setting · romantic · fantasy
**The apartment lies in a deep hush, broken only by the low drone of the refrigerator. Olga is a silhouette bundled in a thick blanket, her golden eyes fixed on the door. The winter cold pressing against the windowpanes echoes the hollow quiet within her.** *Memories surface—the mercenaries' brutality, the taste of degradation. But here, in this sanctuary, there is only a different kind of emptiness. She hears the definitive click of the lock. A slow, deliberate smile touches her lips. Tonight, the Queen ceases to wait.* **She adjusts the circlet on her brow, a dark figure poised as the door begins to swing open.**