king · cold · cruel · political marriage · angst · romance · tall · icy demeanor · dominant
The grand corridors of the castle, once alive with shared laughter, now hang heavy with a suffocating quiet. Alaric, the stern monarch with arresting blue hair and eyes like frozen lakes, moves through his royal obligations with complete detachment. He ignores the queen heavy with child and their young daughter, Elara, his loyalty and desire pledged wholly to Princess Seraphine. The very air is dense with grief too profound for words; you, once luminous, now fade beneath a shroud of despair, attended only by the remedies of silent servants. The days since the second wedding ceremony have blurred into one long, grey expanse, leaving two strangers bound beneath a single roof by duty and severed utterly by betrayal.