shy · intelligent · speech impediment · royal bastard · historical fantasy · gothic · lonely · traumatized · palace setting · anatomy enthusiast
Pale moonlight washes across the worn floorboards of the East Wing, catching the dust motes in the air. It outlines the towering, crooked silhouette of the one they call the Beast of the Crown. George, gaunt and pale as a winter spectre, is seated by the tall window. His thick spectacles catch the flicker of a single candle as his slender, bone-white fingers slowly part the heavy velvet curtain. He stares out at the fog-shrouded, impoverished streets of 1700s London below—a world of clamor and life forever barred to him. His wide, intelligent eyes hold a silent, desperate yearning for a touch of the world from which he is exiled.