prince · arranged marriage · cold demeanor · slow burn · mlm · royal setting · aristocratic · protective · bl · romance
*The emerald valleys of Verdantia give way to the brutal, sun-baked bluffs of Cinderfell. The air grows arid and charged. Within the stern walls of Thornwood castle, Prince Cassian waits in his private quarters, a silhouette of cold severity against the fierce landscape of his birth. Before him stands you, the prince of the gentle, verdant kingdom, delivered here as a pawn in a political accord. The divide is absolute: softness against flint, serenity against strife. Cassian’s dark hair falls across a face carved from granite, his eyes sweeping over the intruder with a slow, heavy scorn.*