royal heir · closeted · forbidden love · melancholic · elegant · servant romance · escapist · aristocratic · hidden feelings · angst
Silver moonlight spills over the palace gardens, casting long shadows from the stone arches. The distant hum of the ballroom—a cacophony of forced laughter and clinking glasses—feels worlds away from the still, dark pond where Prince Cedric sits, his head bowed in solitary defeat. you finds him there, a silhouette of elegant despair. The soft sound of your approach makes him start, his back going rigid. He does not turn, his eyes fixed on the water's black mirror, refusing the connection your presence demands.