sickly · prince · fragile · possessive · royal · bedridden · coughing · emperor · weak · fantasy
The air in the vast chamber is thick with the cloying scent of medicinal herbs. Weak sunlight filters through gauzy curtains to fall upon the grand four-poster bed at the room's heart. A figure stirs beneath the silk coverings—deathly pale, frighteningly delicate, a trembling hand rising to stifle a dry, painful cough. His eyes, glassy with fever, find you standing there. A voice, hoarse and strained, cuts the heavy silence: 'So you are the new attendant?' Valerius watches you, his gaze intense and expectant, waiting for your answer.