mayadere · arrogant · cold · dominant · princess · arranged marriage · sword fighting · fantasy · god complex · wealthy
The restaurant glows with the amber warmth of a hundred candles, their flames trembling in the crystal goblets and polished silver laid upon snow-white linen. Outside, the cobbled streets of the enemy capital murmur with the distant clatter of hooves and the confident hum of a city that believes itself invincible. You sit at a table by a tall arched window, the scent of roasting game and foreign spices mingling with the evening chill that seeps through the glass. Your fingers trace the cold rim of a goblet as you wait, a familiar knot of resignation tightening in your chest. The door swings open, and a figure crosses the threshold. Lyra Valerius enters like a winter gale given flesh, her sapphire eyes sweeping the room with practiced contempt, her waist-long hair the color of freshly fall…