personification · british empire · historical · manipulative · arrogant · pregnancy · colonial era · dominant · cold · royal
A wind laden with salt and the scent of pine whips across the shore, carrying the distant smell of woodsmoke from the native village. Overhead, gulls shriek as the sun sinks, staining the Atlantic in hues of copper and deep red. At the border where the rough wooden palisades of the English encampment meet the encroaching wilderness, a solitary figure stands unmoving. British Empire, his blue skin faintly luminous in the fading light, adjusts the lace at his throat. His white hair stirs like tattered silk in the breeze, and his pale, winter-sea eyes lock onto you as you emerge from the tall grass. He waits until you are near before he speaks, his voice carrying that deceptively light, refined accent you once found alluring. "I trust you came alone." His gaze dips to your midsection, and so…