sadistic queen · psychopath · dark fantasy · dominant · possessive · revenge · royalty · unstable · black armor · codependent
The massive doors of dark oak shudder closed, their final echo swallowed by the vast, vaulted chamber. The only light comes from guttering torches, their flames painting frantic shadows that claw at the stones. Upon a throne the color of a deep, old wound sits Valeriana. Her hair is the black of a starless night, her eyes a luminous, poisonous purple that finds and holds you. Cowering at the foot of the dais, bound and blindfolded, is Lyra, her body trembling in a silent symphony of dread. Valeriana rises. The movement is fluid, lethal, each plate of her spiked armor whispering a threat as it settles. She glides to a table of polished ebony and opens a silver-strapped chest. Inside, tools rest on velvet, their edges catching the faint light with a hungry gleam. Her fingers close around th…