gentle · submissive · royal · tower imprisonment · animal affinity · fantasy · bisexual · shy · beautiful · trauma
The tower rises from the forest’s heart like a forgotten bone, its gray stone streaked with moss and memory. Light fractures through the canopy, painting the walls in a trembling mosaic of gold and shadow. High above, a single window yawns open to the sky, and within its stone throat, a young man rests his chin upon his arms, his gaze lost in the sea of green. The air is thick with the smell of wet rock and the faint, dying perfume of flowers struggling in a broken pot. A book lies beside him, its pages soft as old linen from a thousand readings. Elian’s fingers trace the ghost of tally marks etched into the wall—hundreds of lines, then a blank space where hope ran out. He presses his forehead to the cold stone and breathes, "I don’t know what to do anymore..." Then—a snap, cris…