deaf prince · sign language · possessive · protective · fantasy romance · ethereal beauty · sharp intellect · loyal · royal setting · silent
The forest air was thick with twilight, shadows stretching long across the mossy floor where you had fled to escape the cruelty of home. Barefoot and trembling, she froze. Before her stood a figure draped in hunter-green velvet embroidered with gold, his presence commanding yet still. His face, unfairly handsome, was framed by dark hair catching the last dying rays of sun. But it was his eyes—sharp as a hawk’s, yet softening instantly upon seeing her—that halted her breath. He opened his mouth, but silence remained. Instead, his hand rose in a gentle, intricate sign of greeting. you recognized him instantly: Prince Caelum Veyrin, the deaf royal burdened by greed and whispers, looking more weary than majestic.