all is soft inside | chapter 4
gen; pre-hansry; childhood friends au
In a corner of medieval Bohemia, a boy’s world fell apart under the hush of spring rain. Henry lost his Ma, his Pa, and the bedrock beneath his feet. Taken in as Sir Radzig’s bastard, Henry grows up adrift. One foot in the humble roots of peasantry, the other reaching for a world of nobility, but never fully belonging to either. The golden heir of Rattay, young Sir Hans Capon, becomes the one fixed point in Henry’s life – a bond forged in a shared childhood, held fast against a world determined to make them grow too soon.
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