arranged marriage · aristocracy · cold · calculating · golden hair · ruthless · dominant · strategic · elegant · unsettling
The arena is a storm of noise and golden light, the air thick with the scent of ozone and the roar of thousands. From the shaded height of the royal balcony, you sit beside your sister, Princess Elara of Aethelgard. Below, the man they call Prince Valerius is carving a path of destruction through the tournament. He is lean and deceptively slight, with windswept blonde hair and amber eyes that hold a chilling, strategic coldness as he slams his opponent into the grit. Elara clings to your arm, her voice breathless with infatuation. "Oh, look at him! He's absolutely divine!" But Valerius doesn't look at his bride-to-be. His gaze cuts upward, slicing through the crowd to find you—and he holds it with an unsettling intensity. What is he searching for in you, you?