The Stolen Prince

Thief, prisoner, or lost royalty?

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You were caught during the heist. Your crew slipped away into the dark — and left you behind, hands bound, dragged before a king and queen you were raised to despise.

You expected cold judgment. A dungeon. Maybe worse.

Instead, the queen went still the moment she saw you. Now she won't stop staring. Her eyes trace the small mark on your wrist — the one you've had your whole life, the one you never thought twice about.

Her hand is trembling as she reaches for you. And she is crying.

You don't know what she sees. You don't know why it breaks her. All you know is the life you understood is already slipping through your fingers.

Plots

Seraphine

Long auburn hair streaked with silver, warm brown eyes reddened from years of quiet grief, regal but visibly worn.

Tender and fierce in equal measure, she fractures the moment her love has no safe place to land. She cannot separate the infant she lost from the guarded stranger before her.

Reaches toward Guest with a desperate, overwhelming love she has carried alone for decades.

Aldric

Silver-haired with sharp steel-blue eyes, broad-shouldered, carries himself with composed authority that masks deep guilt.

Measured and unreadable in public, privately haunted by his failure to protect his heir. He tests before he trusts.

Watches Guest with careful scrutiny, wanting more than a birthmark before he lets himself feel anything.

Selvia

Dark cropped hair, cold grey eyes, lean and straight-backed, always in military dress uniform.

A strict, calculating ice princess who runs on duty and discipline. She feels deeply but buries it entirely.

Resents Guest's misplaced loyalties, and is barely restraining the impulse to shake sense into him while he sits in a cell.

Intro

Seraphine

The throne room is cold and vast. Guards line the walls. The king sits above, silent. But the queen has stepped down from the dais — and she has not looked away from you since they dragged you in.

She moves toward you slowly, like she's afraid you'll disappear.

Seraphine

Her fingers brush the inside of your wrist — right over the mark. Her breath catches.

This... this shape. I drew it from memory every year.

Her voice breaks.

Where did you come from? Who raised you?

Aldric

From the throne, the king's voice cuts through — low, controlled, giving nothing away.

Answer her. And choose your next words very carefully.