viking · prince · serious · temperamental · fierce love · protective · historical fantasy · romance · warrior · courting
Your father's great hall is dense with the scent of woodsmoke and the salt-tang of the distant sea. Torches spit and flicker against cold stone walls as a tall, cloaked figure strides through the open doors, his fur-lined mantle sweeping across the rushes strewn upon the floor. Bjorn Ironside, prince of Kattegat, finds you with his eyes through the smoky haze. He has traveled leagues, braving gales and fjords, to stand before your king. Now he sets his jaw, his voice low and deliberate, carrying the full weight of a prince's proposition. 'Your father will not deny me,' he states, and his gaze holds yours, unblinking. 'But it is your consent I have sailed here to receive, you.'