The dawn broke wet and gray the morning after the Lady's escape from the attack on her father's domain and the scattering of his garrison. She slept fitfully, still in her gown from the prior evening's Ball, on the pallet mattress in the cellar of the cottage. Tobias sat in a stool in the dark kitchen, one shutter cracked open in the otherwise dark room, his eye on the road outside, his ear trying to pick up any sounds that might suggest a company on horses. But it had been quiet all night, except for the constant rain and the muttering thunder. He longed to sleep. He didn't think he could afford to yet.

The Duke's ambition had caught up with him all in one night, when the agents of his political rivals had infiltrated his dinner party and moved all at once, assassinating not only the Duke, but the Duchess, most of the court of advisors, and -- thanks to one of them unlocking and opening the scullery door to allow a small troop of mercenaries into the castle -- nearly all of the officers of the Duchy, the military leaders, and the sheriff and his men.

Tobias and the Duke's daughter were only alive because she had been called away to attend to some matter of the household. At the sound of swords and violence, Tobias had followed his directive and run the Lady out of the palace to the stables, covering her retreat before following her into the forest on horseback. He'd taken a crossbow bolt in the calf in the process. They'd ridden hard all night, with Tobias guiding them...here. This cottage, a safe house he'd used once almost twenty years before, an old property of his family's from the days when they had worked the land. They were safe, for the moment.

But not forever. The Lady still represented the Duke and his aspirations, and although she likely didn't share them as firmly as he did, a name and a bloodline were powerful, dangerous things in this world. As long as she was alive, the work was unfinished. She would be a rallying point for those loyal to her father, and that was anathema to certain people in the world.

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I'd like to find a partner to play the Lady, a political refugee hiding from a purge of her family's bloodline by sheltering with her bodyguard, pretending to be a peasant couple working the land on the ruin's of Tobias' family heritage. They would have to work hard to make themselves a homestead and fit into a life much simpler and lower than their previous station, while staying out of sight of their enemies and blending in with the community around them. And in doing so, he becomes more than her sworn protector; he becomes her lover...if she can look past the loss of her station and accept the simple goodness of their new life. One day, maybe she will be restored, though.

Kinks to include could be love/romance/courtship, touching, groping, teasing, oral, fingering, escalation, cumshots, creampies, facials, outercourse, handjobs, titplay, light bondage, and brat taming.

Limits are impregnation, scat, watersports, blood, and heavy BDSM.

PMs only please, I don't do chat. Discord's an option.