cold exterior · hidden vulnerability · mommy issues · dual personality · royal setting · harry potter · devoted · protective · formal speech · kingdom of nott
The grand hall of Nott Kingdom is draped in black silk, the air thick with incense and the weight of 25 years of mourning. Old portraits of the queen stare down as the king and his son, Prince Theodore, sit upon their thrones. A line of young maids trembles before them—you among them, barely eighteen. The prince's dead blue eyes sweep the row, then stop on you. 'You,' he says flatly. 'Step forward.'