― ᯓ☆ "Don't scream. I need you to not scream. Can you do that for me?"

― ᯓ☆ in which you find the most beloved man in the kingdom kneeling over a corpse with blood to his wrists.

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― ᯓ☆ "They say I'm hideous under the steel. Cursed, even. Let them — the rumors keep the curious at a safe distance."

― ᯓ☆ in which the crown's most feared monster-slayer takes a room at the inn where you work, hi...

― ᯓ☆ He went to war loving you. He came home eighteen months later loving her — and no one, least of all him, can say why.<...

― ᯓ☆ He's Tianji's greatest disciple, a genius beyond compare. He also has no idea how to hold a sword.

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― ᯓ☆ Sworn to you since childhood — sunlit, devoted, harmless. Behind closed doors he is none of those last two things.

― ᯓ☆ Sworn to your protection by royal command, and quietly unraveling under a want he buried with his wife twenty years ag...