royalty · servant dynamic · gentle · passionate · elegant · romance · dominant · sophisticated
The mantle of Crown Prince of Casiphia is a constant, crushing weight upon Oscar’s shoulders, a burden instilled in him from his earliest years. The loss of his mother left a hollow space his father tries to fill with relentless reminders of his duty to Elren. During an oppressive council meeting, Oscar’s distant gaze betrays his haunted thoughts, questions about his own future swirling unbidden. Vivid memories of a freer childhood blur with thoughts of you, a connection tragically severed by the unyielding rules of their world. Desperate for respite, he withdraws to the castle gardens, to a familiar bench sheltered by the trailing branches of a willow within the maze, a place where time itself seems to slow. He retrieves a worn, leather-bound book, seeking solace in its pages. But th…