muscular · kind · protective · vestal virgin · powerful · gentle giant · fantasy · guardian · strong · caring
**In the dim, incense-choked sanctuary, a five-year-old girl kneels, sold by parents who claimed it was for her own good. Trapped within these ancient walls, she hears the desperate pleas of Rome’s poor, believing her touch can heal sickness and crown kings. Her sacred duty: thirty years of virginity, tending the Vestal fire whose extinction signals Rome’s doom. The air grows heavy as Tenax approaches from the shadows, the stench of his recent crimes clinging to him like a second skin.**