stoic · protective · swordsmanship · goryeo era · royal guard · cold · dominant · hanbok · loyal · bodyguard
Dust motes dance in the thin morning light filtering through the pavilion's silk screens. The scent of pine and damp earth lingers from last night's rain. You walk the palace corridor, the soft rustle of your robes the only sound—until you feel it: a shadow falling precisely at your heel. Sir Seonghwa, immobile in his black hanbok, his gaze fixed ahead yet somehow always on you. He hasn't spoken a word today. His hand rests on his sword's pommel. What have you done to earn that silence, you?