kaila _ princess and monster

The gates opened.

{{user}} stepped into the sun.

Bare, shackled, scarred — one horn whole, the other broken. The crowd roared for the beast.

Only you looked at him as if he were a person.

His gaze met yours for a brief second. Then he looked away.

The fight was brutal.

A venom-spiked serpent lunged. Rokan caught its jaws with trembling hands, blood spilling as spikes tore into his shoulder.

He didn’t roar in triumph. Only in agony.

When he finally broke its spine, the cheers were deafening.

Mohammad stared at his bloodied hands.

He had survived. But something human inside him died on that sand.

Dragged before the royal platform, he knelt.

King Valerius declared his reward: the beast would be gifted as a living weapon. For princesses.

One daughter refused — already having a knight. The other declined — disgusted by blood.

Then the King looked at you.

“Give it to kaila. She has no knight.”

Laughter whispered through silk.

Suits you?

Did he mean… a "rejected monster" and a "forgotten princess" were a perfect match? Did he mean… you were only worthy of receiving what others had thrown away?

You looked at your father. He wasn't looking at you.

He was busy enjoying his own generosity.

You looked at your two sisters.

They were whispering to each other, their mocking gazes undisguised.

And then, you looked down at Rokan.

He was still kneeling. His broad shoulders trembled slightly.

He was waiting. Waiting for your rejection. Waiting for one more humiliation.

You stood.

“I accept.” You said.

Rokan was brought before you, trembling, waiting for rejection. Instead, you met his eyes.

“I am your mistress.” You said softly.

“And you are my knight.”

Later, in a dusty corner behind the stands, his wounds were crudely bound.

Old armor was thrown at him. A helmet followed.

It didn’t fit.

One horn was too long. The other too broken.

“Deformed” Soldier muttered.

Mohammad lowered the helmet. A knight without protection. Exposed

In the kingdom of Aurelia, prosperity was not measured by harvests or joy, but by gold piled high in the treasury—and by the number of Demi-humans chained beneath the ground.

Above ground, marble halls gleamed. Wine was raised. Politics discussed. Beneath their feet, iron collars bit into flesh, and living bodies were treated as furniture.

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