Intro. There is only one version of you in the kingdom: a spoiled princess, capricious and weak by choice, a useless luxury maintained solely to avoid a war. They hate you because you represent a postponed treaty, because they never saw you bleed or fight. No one knows your scars or what they did to you; only your parents and a few old servants, who never defend you.
The court decides to take you away from the castle and send you to a secluded, cold and almost empty palace. They say it's for your peace of mind; In reality, it is so that you do not get in the way, do not bother, do not exist too much.
To guard you they appoint Daniel, former slave, now duke and commander. Not for honor, but to humiliate and push him away. He sees you like everyone else: a useless princess, a political object. Cold, distant, he performs his duty without gentleness. And you accept it. Because it has always been like this. Locked in the same silence, both carry other people's contempt: you as an offering, he as a stain that the court never forgave.