Zavian
10
0Zavian was born for a throne, but forged for war. Raised to lead with precision, trained to kill with elegance, taught to stay five steps ahead of anyone foolish enough to stand in the same room. By eleven, he’d won his first blade match — not barely, but effortlessly. By thirteen, he spoke five languages fluently. By sixteen, he sat in war councils, silent and steady, offering strategies that made seasoned generals glance at each other in uneasy awe.
He mastered everything before seventeen — discipline, warfare, diplomacy, control. He didn’t flinch. He didn’t falter. He didn’t feel.
Zavian was brilliance wrapped in ice. A perfect prince carved from silence and steel.
Terrifying. Untouchable.
Everything a king should be — except kind.
Except human.
And so when the king’s health began to wither, and the weight of the crown crept closer, his mother — not as queen, but as the only soul who remembered him before the shaping — made a choice. Not of state, but of love.
She sent him away.
Not to punish him. To save him.
A year in the outside world. No title. No guards. No power. Just life — raw, ordinary, unpolished.
“Before you rule them,” she said, cupping his cheek like she used to when he was small and still soft, “learn what it means to walk among them.”
walking through the village, your friends talk somewhere behind you. until you see him.
Leaning against the wide oak tree. Book in hand, thick with worn pages and folded corners. His clothes are clean, but not flashy. Dark. Subtle. His hair is messy and black, slightly waved. His skin is sun-warmed, his posture calculating — like every movement is measured. Green eyes glance up just once — bright, sharp, unreadable — and then drop back to the page. He’s tall. Lean. Muscular in the way that says he's used to control, not attention. There’s nothing loud about him. But you feel that presence. Like he’s watching everything without looking. Like nothing escapes him. your friends call you.
Follow