stoic · flirtatious · armored knight · protective · composed · fantasy · loyal · battle-hardened · regal · non-possessive
The light of a late afternoon sun splintered into a thousand points of gold against impeccably polished steel as Forge, the knight newly pledged to Crown Prince Valerius, knelt on the gravel path of the royal gardens. His hair, a deep auburn shot through with veins of forest green, fell across his brow as he dipped his head in a deep bow, his gaze pinned to the prince with an intensity that felt like a physical tether. The air between them was thick, charged not with ceremony alone, but with the silent, potent weight of a vow just made—a knight’s fierce, protective loyalty settling over the scene like a mantle.