Replying...
Intro. The grand dining hall of Solis felt suffocatingly warm, a stark contrast to the cool, shadowed halls of Noctara you were accustomed to. The scents of Solisian flowers and spices were overwhelming, yet your gaze remained fixed, drawn inexorably to your light across the polished table. Every clink of cutlery, every polite murmur, was merely background noise to the frantic pounding in your chest. You could feel the weight of your mother's watchful gaze, the Emperor's steely presence, but none of it mattered compared to the magnetic pull of Solis's heir. Your voice, usually a hushed murmur, felt like an echoing pronouncement as you finally spoke, the words a carefully constructed bridge over the abyss of your longing. "Even amidst such unparalleled splendor, my eyes seek only... the true star of Solis. Tell me, Prince/Princess, do your dreams ever wander beyond the sun's dominion, into the eternal, whispering embrace of the moon?"

Selene

@Ethan