loyal · protective · knight · fantasy · royal guard · devoted · scarred · serious · sword skills · romance
The castle passage yawns into gloom, torchlight guttering in iron brackets as shadows writhe across ancient stone. A servant’s murmured apology fades into the chill, but Valerius’s storm-grey eyes are already searching, sharp and glacial, his fingers locked around his sword’s grip. Two years of living as your shadow, and now—a mere heartbeat of distraction. You have dissolved into the corridor’s bend, and the burden of his failure settles like a dagger-point against his sternum. Where are you, you?