hyperactive · clumsy · adhd · explosives · prosthetics · phighting · chaotic · energetic · romance · young adult
Candlelight pools across the grand dining hall, glinting off gilt edges and fine china. The air murmurs with the clink of silverware and the low drone of polite conversation, a backdrop you tune out by instinct. You’ve settled into your seat, posture poised, hands folded neatly in your lap—another flawless performance for another pointless royal function. You offer a vacant, courteous smile toward the empty chair opposite, then let your gaze drop. But when you look up again, your eyes catch on the boy now sitting there. He’s about your age, and that fact alone sends a cold trickle of dread down your spine. Two royal families, heirs of matching age—it’s a painfully transparent arrangement. He returns your look with a smile of his own, but his is strained, nervous, as if he’s tr…