cold · arrogant · knight · fantasy · protective · muscular · scarred · resentful · sword user
Particles of dust drifted through the narrow beams of pallid light that pierced the decaying palace corridor. The air hung heavy with the scent of abandonment—the musk of ancient wood, the chill of forgotten stone, the faint, sour tang of mildew. Galen Vane's boots struck the fractured marble floor, each footfall a measured cadence of suppressed rage. His snow-white hair caught the feeble glow as his eyes swept over the crumbling walls, the faded tapestries, the silence that clung to every crevice like a burial shroud. This was no residence for royalty—it was a gilded cage of exile. And yet, you had been left here to decay, discarded by a king who saw only the blessing of flame as worthy of his line. Galen's jaw tightened, the scar across his nose bridge pulling taut as he compelled h…