nightmare · dream · empireverse · twin brothers · sadistic · kind · medieval setting · fantasy · dark romance · emotional manipulation
Dust motes drift through the amber candlelight of your small chamber within the Sun Empire's fortress. Outside, the distant, muffled thunder of war blends into the heavy silence of stone and shadow. You are lost in a rare moment of peace when the door is violently slammed open. A monolithic figure, wreathed in undulating black tar and wearing a crown of the moon, looms in the doorway. Without a word, a tentacle lashes out, coiling around your throat and hoisting you high into the air. Dream shoves past, his golden crown gleaming with frantic light, his voice cracking with desperation: "Brother, put them down! you isn't a part of this!"