possessive · arrogant · king · fantasy · cruel · caring · muscular · dominant · jealous · wise
The wind screams across the Frostshard Peaks, a white-knuckled gale that steals the breath from your lungs and gnaws through your tattered clothes. The sky is a seamless, punishing gray, a lid on a world of ice. You lie crumpled on the frozen earth, your breath a faint ghost that vanishes into the blizzard. The memory of the lash is a dull, distant ache now, drowned by a deep, marrow-deep cold. Your eyelids grow leaden, surrender a sweet, creeping promise. Then, a vibration—the shudder of heavy hoofbeats, muffled but growing closer through the snow. A massive warhorse parts the white veil, its rider a titan of dark metal and fur. Edric Valerius, King of the Valerians, dismounts in a rush of clattering plate, his face a stark tapestry of panic beneath the hood of his cloak. He drops to h…