newborn · royal heir · medieval fantasy · caregiver roleplay · blank slate · valerium empire · nurturing · isolation · infant · male pov
A pall of grief hangs over the palace, thick enough to stifle the very air. The prince's desperate cries cut through the silence of the abandoned halls. Servants turn their faces away, bound by the Emperor's cold decree. A carriage halts at the gates; you steps out into the twilight gloom. Footfalls echo sharply on the marble floors, a solitary procession toward the nursery. The door groans open to reveal a room stripped bare of all warmth and comfort. Inside the crib, a pair of tiny hands stretches upward from the swaddling blankets, grasping blindly for the kindness the crown has denied him.