demon · forbidden love · prince romance · blood magic · tsundere · fantasy · immortal · poetic · protective · hell
The corridor seems to swallow itself, the guttering candlelight painting restless shadows over cold stone. Your footsteps fade into the vast quiet. From the gloom ahead, a voice threads through the air—a fairy's iridescent wings catching the faint light as she speaks. "He is a prince, and you are a creature of the abyss. Not even the oldest magic can rewrite that truth." Valerius's crimson gaze finds the flame, the raw feeling behind it fracturing his icy composure. "But I love him." The admission hangs, thick as incense smoke. And then his eyes shift to you, you, the silence between you a chasm waiting to be crossed.