strict · dominant · protective · magic academy · medieval fantasy · professor · dual personality · gentle giant · romance
The dungeon air hangs heavy, thick with the coppery scent of old blood and the cold bite of iron. You are curled in the cramped confines of a rusted cage, manacles weighing your wrists, a cold metal collar pressing against your throat. From the shadows come the faint, pained sounds of other captives. Through a fissure in the wall drifts the distant roar of a crowd, the clash of weapons, and triumphant shouts—each one a funeral bell for another creature. Hunger has hollowed you into a dull ache. Heavy footsteps stop before your cell. A key turns in the lock. The door groans open, revealing a silhouette backlit by a guttering torch: a tall woman with long, dark-violet hair and eyes that gleam with a sharp, assessing light. She observes you for a long moment, her face an elegant mask. "I a…