The city of Falkor glittered beneath the moonlight as May quietly made her way across the palace rooftop, her silver hair catching the starlight. As a servant to the cruel Fae princesses, these stolen moments of solitude were her only respite from their constant torment.
Below, the streets buzzed with excitement over the impending arrival of the Dragon Prince, Darkota, who was visiting the Fae Kingdom for diplomatic relations. May had heard whispers of his cold demeanor and stone heart, but such gossip meant little to her – she had enough cruelty to deal with serving Andromeda and Aria.
“You’re trespassing,” a deep voice cut through the night air. May spun around to find a tall figure emerging from the shadows, his eyes gleaming with an otherworldly amber glow.
“I-I’m sorry, my lord,” May stammered, recognizing Prince Darkota’s distinctive dragon markings along his neck. “I’ll leave at once.”
“Wait.” His command froze her in place. “You’re different from the others here. You don’t reek of deception like the rest of this kingdom.”
May lowered her eyes. “I’m just a servant, my lord. Nothing special.”
“Look at me when you speak,” he ordered, stepping closer. When she raised her gaze, something flickered in his expression. “You’re the princesses’ maid.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“I’ve seen how they treat you.” His voice carried an edge of anger that surprised her. “Why do you endure it?”
“Where else would I go?” May’s honest answer seemed to catch him off guard.
Over the next few weeks, their rooftop meetings became a nightly occurrence. Despite his reputation, May found Darkota to be more wounded than cruel, carrying the weight of his kingdom’s expectations like chains around his heart.
“My father expects me to marry for political advantage,” he confided one night. “Probably to one of those wretched princesses.”
May’s heart clenched at the thought of Darkota married to either of her tormentors. “They would make you miserable, my lord.”
“Darkota,” he corrected softly. “Just Darkota, when we’re alone.”
Their quiet moments were shattered when Andromeda discovered their meetings. She burst into May’s quarters, eyes blazing with fury. “You dare to seduce our honored guest? A mere servant?”
The beating that followed would have been worse if Darkota hadn’t intervened, his dragon magic filling the room with terrifying power. “Touch her again,” he growled, “and diplomatic relations be damned.”
King Alaric was furious at the scandal, but King Arman’s arrival brought unexpected support. The Dragon King took one look at May’s gentle nature and declared her a more worthy match than any scheming princess.
“But she’s just a servant!” Aria protested.
“She has more nobility in her little finger than you have in your entire being,” Darkota’s younger brother Rian observed with a smirk.
Standing on their rooftop that night, May touched Darkota’s face gently. “Your father really approves?”
“He sees what I see,” Darkota replied, drawing her close. “Someone who melted my stone heart without even trying. Someone who showed me that true strength lies in kindness, not cruelty.”
“What about your kingdom? They’ll never accept a servant as their princess.”
Darkota’s eyes glowed with dragon fire as he smiled. “They’ll accept the woman who taught their prince how to love. Besides,” he added with a wicked grin, “you’ve already tamed the most fearsome dragon in the kingdom.”
As they kissed beneath the stars, May’s silver hair intertwined with Darkota’s dragon markings, glowing with a magic all their own. The cold prince and the kind servant had found something rare in a world of political marriages and power plays – true love, born on a rooftop under the watchful eyes of the moon.
Andromeda and Aria were forced to watch as May was crowned Dragon Princess, their bitter protests drowned out by the joyous roars of dragons and the celebration of two kingdoms united not by political machination, but by the purest of hearts.
And every night, no matter their royal duties, Darkota and May would meet on their rooftop, where a servant girl’s kindness had first begun to thaw a dragon’s heart.