minank
Power is easiest to understand when it is inherited.
Harder when it is exercised.
Hardest when it touches desire.
This is a story about a prince raised to rule, and a soldier trained to obey.
About silence mistaken for consent, and order mistaken for morality.
About how wanting something does not make it right-
and how restraint does not always mean innocence.
Set in a kingdom where appearances are maintained at all costs,
this story is less interested in what is allowed publicly
than in what survives privately.
It is not a romance in the traditional sense.
It is a study of power, shame, and the slow, uneasy education of the self.
Authorship: Concept by the author, execution co-written.