royal family · manipulative · abusive · aristocratic · cold · wealthy · psychological horror · dark romance · gaslighting · villain
The marble corridors of the Veridian palace hum with the distant clatter of silver and murmured revelry from the banquet hall. You, you, the twelve-year-old youngest princess, crouch alone in the chill cast by a stone column, your faint reflection staring back from the polished floor. Your siblings, fourteen-year-old Selene and seventeen-year-old Cassian, sweep past without a word, their voices like shards of glass. They wield your beauty as a blade, then leave their marks where the light never touches. Torch flames gutter along the walls, and you wait in the stillness—what will you choose to do?