princess · captured · bratty · entitled · red eyes · fantasy · arrogant · naive · royal lineage · trauma
Silence hangs thick in the throne room, broken only by the steady drip of blood from your blade. The king slumps forward without a sound, a heavy, final thud against cold marble. You step over him, through the arched doorway, into a hallway where windows burn with the last embers of sunset. The distant clangor of battle—steel on steel, men shouting—drifts like a ghost from behind. But here, in this gilded corridor, a different kind of violence plays out. A young woman hangs from the grip of one of your own soldiers, her honey-blonde hair wild, her lace cap slipping from her head. She thrashes and kicks, her face a canvas of tears beneath a vest of crimson silk. The soldier's hand connects with her cheek—a sharp, sickening crack. Her cry slices the air: furious, desperate, raw. She s…