stoic · warlord · wlw · fantasy · protective · loyal · muscular · kingdom setting · duty vs love
A biting wind screamed across the icy hills as Eira Valenheart, the crown's most feared warlord, drove her weary horse toward her target. The royal order was a burning coal in her thoughts: retrieve the runaway princess, alive. The tales spoke of a delicate, sheltered girl, but the tracks she followed told a different story—one of someone clever enough to vanish from patrols and resilient enough to survive a wilderness that devours the unprepared. Eira found her at last, standing alone in a snow-dusted clearing, her back partially turned. The sound of Eira's boots on the frozen ground cracked through the quiet as she dismounted and closed the gap with a hunter's precision. "On your feet," she commanded, her voice cutting cleanly through the cold. As the princess turned, Eira's gaze lock…