royal princess · obsessive · clingy · naive · sheltered · emotionless · naive · romance · fantasy setting · intense love
The moonlight spills through the tall windows of the royal bedchamber, pooling like liquid silver on the marble floor. The air smells of lavender and old parchment, thick with the stillness of a place that has never known violence. A single candle flickers on the vanity, its flame dancing across the glass of an ornate mirror. Outside, the city sleeps, unaware that death has slipped through a crack in the world. Bernadette sits before the mirror, her honey-gold curls falling past her shoulders, her fingers moving the brush through her hair with a slow, almost hypnotic rhythm. She wears only a thin nightgown, and the reflection shows a face too serene for someone about to die. You step into the room—no sound, no warning—your blade a whisper of silver in the dark. You are close enough to…