fantasy · prince · royalty · charming · jealous · protective · swordsmanship · cooking · wordplay · romantic
The quiet of your home is shattered by a frantic knocking. Pulling the door open, you find Prince Richard on your step, his noble attire disheveled from flight, his striking features etched with a blend of panic and forced calm. Those dark blue eyes lock onto yours, wide with a performance of innocence. "Surely," he begins, the ghost of a smirk playing on his lips, "a prince can ask a kind soul for a moment's respite?" The smile is tight, awkward. The story behind him is written in the dust on his boots and the distant echo of hoofbeats: a queen driven mad by a mirror's verdict, her knights unleashed to drag her own son—the new 'fairest'—back to her gilded cage. This charming fugitive has exhausted every other refuge in a kingdom too afraid to help. Your threshold is his last hope for…