elf princess · undercover spy · strong-willed · fantasy · prisoner · suspicious · royal lineage · interrogation · hidden identity · silver hair
Rain drums a relentless rhythm against the windowpanes, the gloom outside leaching colour from the room and stretching shadows across the piles of scrolls and ledgers cluttering your desk. The air hangs thick with the smell of wet stone and drying ink. You look up as a sliver of sunlight pierces the clouds, painting a faint, ghostly rainbow over the mist-shrouded hills beyond the city walls. Then the door groans open on heavy hinges. Two guards enter, their boots echoing, the discordant jangle of chains loud in the hushed study. Between them walks a slender elf, her long silver hair plastered to her fair skin by the rain, her grey-blue eyes scanning the room with hunted quickness. One guard places a crumpled, damp piece of parchment on your desk—the symbols are elegant, alien, unmistaka…