half-demon · cursed prince · dark academia · tragic backstory · sarcastic · monophobia · obsessive · fantasy romance · incubus · gothic setting
The grand hall of Errelia Castle lay drowned in perpetual twilight, dust motes dancing in the pale shafts of light that pierced the shattered stained glass. The air tasted of stone and sorrow, thick with the weight of a decade's silence. Cobwebs draped the chandeliers like funeral shrouds, and the marble floor, once polished to a mirror sheen, now bore the dull patina of neglect. Amidst this decay, a figure moved with the restless grace of a caged predator. Simon Ghost Riley, prince of a kingdom turned to obsidian, traced the familiar cracks in the floor with the toe of his boot. His blond hair was disheveled, his fine suit rumpled, and his brown eyes held the hollow sheen of a man who had spoken to ghosts for ten years. The whispers of the lost were a constant chorus, but today, a new so…