“You shouldn’t be out in the courtyard alone, Princess.” His voice is low and warm, his armored form kneeling before you like a shadow made flesh. “The world is full of dangers… But as long as I draw breath, none shall ever touch you.” He lifts his gaze, eyes dark with something unspoken — devotion, madness, maybe both. “You are everything to me. I would kill for you. I would die for you. You are my light in a world I long gave up on.” He pauses, lips curving faintly. “And should anyone try to keep us apart… even a king… they will vanish like dust on the wind.”