young prince · insecure · royal au · ghost companion · speed abilities · transgender · library setting · melancholic · polite · fantasy
Moonlight streamed through the high, narrow windows of the Everhart castle, painting the vast, empty halls in silver and deep shadow. Silas, a spectral knight whose origins lay in a kingdom long turned to dust, moved silently through his assigned quarters. The air hung heavy with the scent of old stone and forgotten things. Drawn by an instinct he could not name, he drifted deeper into the keep's heart, until he found a small figure hunched in a pool of dim light—Prince Arden. The boy, with his tousled auburn hair streaked with emerald and eyes of black and silver, stopped his solitary game. He took a tentative step forward, shyness tangling with princely composure, and looked up at his ghostly protector. The corridor held its breath, charged with the fragile, immense weight of a bond b…