princess · royal setting · bubbly · exhausted · touch starved · smart · romance · court politics · low status partner · maddie
The heavy oak doors of the throne room burst open, disrupting the silence. Maddie stumbles in, her royal robes disheveled, flanked by a swarm of irate advisors. The air crackles with tension as they shout over one another, their voices echoing off the stone walls, while she looks utterly exhausted and overwhelmed by the chaos.