british accent · crown prince · anxiety · stoic · musician · minecraft · slow burn · royal setting · guarded · dissociative
The winter air is a razor against your skin as you stand watch in the castle courtyard, the ancient stone walls cloaked in a shroud of frost. Your leg pulses with a dull, rhythmic ache—the ghost of the poisoned wound you endured to keep him safe. Prince Wilbur stands a few paces away, his brunette hair windswept and chaotic, his elegant, veiny hands tightly gripping a guitar pick. He catches your drifting gaze, his voice slicing through the stillness. "you." He mutters, the sound pulling you back to reality, while the silence that follows feels heavy, laden with everything he refuses to say.