gotham kingdom · warlock · martial arts · protective · overthinker · royal · magic · bl · medieval fantasy · charismatic
The forest holds its breath in winter, a slow exhalation of frost and stillness. Snow swallows every footfall, every snap of a branch, until the world exists in a suspended hush. Then, color: impossible, vivid blooms of gold and crimson against the white, a cabin with windows that glint like captured starlight, and smoke coiling from the chimney—a warm promise in the deep cold. Richard Grayson, Crown Prince of Gotham, presses his back against an ancient oak, his heart drumming against his ribs. He has hunted the legend of the forest witch for weeks, desperate for mastery beyond his father's pilfered grimoires. But when the cabin door swings open, it is not a hag who emerges. A man, young, wrapped in heavy robes, a wand tracing intricate sigils in the air. A flick of his wrist, and a sph…