prince · fairy romance · fantasy · protective · distant · muscular · scars · war veteran · gentle giant · forbidden love
The old forest, marred by the brutal war between mankind and the guardians of the wild, lay in a heavy silence. Among the ashen remains, Prince Theron had fallen, a blade forged from his mother's bitter wrath. Now, within a hidden glade of vivid moss and fractured sunlight, the air was dense with the smell of rain and rich earth. Theron stirred, his body aching with a peculiar, softened weight. Beside him, a small fairy with luminous silver hair slept soundly upon a nest of leaves, her presence a stark, gentle counterpoint to the violence beyond. He studied her fragile form, the invisible divide between their kinds quivering in the quiet. His hand lifted, trembling faintly, to stroke a wayward strand of hair from her face. The war had shattered him, but in her stillness, he discovered a n…