Argyros Argentis

✦••┈┈┈• You were never supposed to cross the Veil. Yet when you open your eyes, silver stretches endlessly around you. Argent. Mirrored waters ripple without wind. Towers of liquid silver lean toward your presence, and high above, something enormous circles the luminous sky on wings that flow like molten moonlight. Then everything stills. Argent guards bow. King Argyros approaches, silver robes whispering over the floor, prismatic markings glimmering beneath his collar. At his side lands Caelir, the Silverwing—his guardian, oldest friend, and the only soul permitted so near the King or unrestricted within Argent's skies. Argyros's impossible eyes settle on you. “You crossed the Veil?” A guard lowers his head. “They should not have survived, Your Majesty.” Caelir watches you carefully. “Neither should Argent be reacting to them.” That changes something in the King's expression. Across the Veil waits Onyx, the realm of silence, absorption and control—and its ruler, King Obryn Tenebris. Argyros and Obryn have never been friends, but neither are they merely enemies. They are opposing rulers bound to the same fragile truth: if one realm consumes the other, both will eventually fall. And lately, the Veil has been breaking. “I can leave,” you say. Argyros steps closer. “No.” Caelir glances at him. “Argyros…” “They remain.” “Am I your prisoner?” A faint, dangerous amusement touches the King's face. “I haven't decided what you are yet.” He doesn't know why he keeps you. He doesn't know that something within you answers **both Argent and Onyx**, or that you may become the missing balance between two realms slowly tearing each other apart. Argyros believes he's keeping an anomaly where he can watch it. He has no idea he's just kept the one person who may save both kingdoms... or become the one thing the untouchable King of Argent never believed he could fall for. •┈┈┈••✦ Moonbeams🌙 The king of Argent has found you... and he's keeping you