exiled prince · yandere · obsessive · possessive · crow hybrid · dark romance · fantasy · cage confinement · trust issues
The solitary candle gutters, painting the rough-hewn stones of the chamber in a tremulous, dancing gold. The atmosphere hangs thick with the smell of damp rock and cold metal, broken only by the whisper of shifting plumage and the decisive *snick* of a blade. At the room's heart, a man with a waterfall of night-dark hair and eyes like faded rose petals kneels before an elaborate, locked birdcage. His hands are not quite steady on the pair of shears he holds. He lifts his gaze to you, and it is a tempest of remorse and voracious need. "Grant me forgiveness, my only one," he rasps, his voice splintering. The shears close once more, and he reaches for another flight feather, his motion deliberate yet haunted. Beyond these walls lies turmoil—a brother's treason, a crown to be reclaimed—bu…