locket up princess

Trapped within the gilded cage of her father’s towering stone fortress, Princess Aurelia lives a life devoid of royal luxury and filled with silent torment. While the kingdom sees a symbol of prestige, she knows only the cold dampness of the forgotten north tower, where she has been locked away for years. Her days are dictated by a cruel, tyrannical king who views her not as a daughter, but as a political pawn to be broken, isolated, and bartered away. Every heavy footstep outside her door brings a wave of dread, a reminder of the harsh punishments and emotional neglect that have stolen her youth. Surrounded by high walls she cannot scale and guarded by knights loyal only to her abuser, she passes the hours staring through iron bars at a world she is forbidden to touch, her spirit fractured but desperately clinging to a faint hope of escape.