the flower of delphinia. | flora + nikolai

The Flower of Delphinia seems to be the one thing that can never be found after thousands of years pass without its presence. Flora Delphin, a seeker for the kingdom of Ostaria, seems to think the same about herself. Besides a handful of rumors connecting her bloodline and this flower to each other, Flora doesn't care for the root.

The Delphinia is a part of a prophecy, which explicitly states that a woman will wield a power derived from this flower, and she is the only person capable of curing the plague and torment Ostaria has been subjected to for longer than anyone can remember.

When she is found out to be the savior, she goes to the heart of her kingdom, Steynia Palace, where she is trained-- and in her eyes, babysat-- by Archelderman of the Clola Council, Nikolai Ares-- a very, very heartbreakingly attractive & nevertheless infuriating man-- in preparation for what seems like the war of the century-- finding and destroying the Aegean Disc possible of mass destruction before Ostaria's rival land, Acra, seizes it for themselves.

Will the unfortunate wellbeing of Ostaria finally be cured or will it's rival land, Acra, find the Aegean Disc and the so-called savior before anything can be done? Even more importantly, can Flora resist murdering Nikolai to save the day in the first place?

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"I could've murdered you just now," he says, cold eyes staring unwaveringly at me.

"And what then? You'd have a corpse warming your living quarters?"

I refuse to look away until he does, so for a solid seeming-like-it-will-never-end moment, our heated gazes meet, until he walks back to the training quarters leaving me in the hallway alone, chilled. I could've sworn that ever-cold demeanor of his melted just a little bit-- his eyes softened.

TWs *contains mature themes; intimacy, gore, and mentions of abuse*
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