"Life is filled with beautiful things even if they are dark instead of light"

Prince Kildren ran happily through the palace, completely ignoring the way his guards would scream in the distance, pleading with him to slow down and let them protect him in case there was an attack, that only seemed to make him go even faster feeling the air push against his tanned skin, which now became a new addiction added to his long list of pleasures.

Though to be fair, nobody was allowed in the fey grounds unless invited or you were a current or former fey resident, so that could have left a few people who didn't seem to like him, due to the misconception that he was a spoiled idiot but he wasn't he was intelligent, kind, helpful, and always put his kingdom first. Those who were personally in his sights, no matter how long knew that because he would always ask how their days were going, and if he knew you more than at a passing glance he would ask about your family, job, or pets.

A guardian of secrets, he was that everyone wondered why he simply didn't turn into a priest, since that would have been fine either way, because as the crowned prince he could have just done whatever he pleased, and everyone had to swallow down their pride on how a prince was supposed to act or behave and accept it or they got kicked out of the fey world till they truly understood that it was his life and not theirs.

Nobody knew about his sexuality, either not even he knew it himself since he could not be bothered to date, since building treaties with the dark fey was second to helping his father rule his kingdom as a first hand experience on how to rule his people in the future, so he was always busy with one thing or another. To simply say love was in his list of "Not today Satan" was basically a given.

Love was nothing he willingly walked into; kind of like how you sidestepped dog shit in the ground so you didn't get your shoes all dirty, because who wanted the stench on them even when you got rid of it? Now his father always wondered on where he went "wrong", as he spoiled his son in love and the answer was that his father's love was pure as he dotted on him and the love of another in a relationship could easily turn toxic and terrible sometimes even at times it could be fake but it looked so beautiful you simply didn't care.

Reaching the wooden door that led to his father's study, he didn't bother to knock on the door and just skipped right into the elegant white room panting and smiling towards the king in a way of apology for the rude way he walked in. Sighing the king closed his eyes, and waved a hand to indicate that he should sit down. The look on his face showed that this was going to rub him the wrong way.

Groaning internally he wondered what he had done wrong this time. Like he seriously searched his internal memory of fuckery of wrong doings this month, and didn't seem to find anything wrong that would get him in the hot seat with his father. No time like the present to get his ass handed to him for whatever got him here.

"Son do you know how we turn from crowned princes to kings? It isn't simply done with a 'here is the keys to the castle have fun bro' that I'm pretty sure is running through your brain when I asked this. No my son just no" The king looked outside for a moment and smiled sadly.

"We take a journey across the 7 worlds to find our mates, it doesn't matter what gender they are, because in the end they will end up pregnant with our child. There are exceptions to that rule, not everyone is in want of a mate, so we the crown princes before we turn into kings hide the fact that we are descendents of royalty.

"Why do we hide, you ask? We hide who we are until, we trust our partners and wait till they love us, as we love them, because there are people who want to be with us for the power, the money, or the status that comes with royalty. There cannot be secrets between two or more loving partners. Yes I say partners, because you don't know what gender your partners will be, so accept what comes your way.

Don't lose hope either, as there will be struggles to reaching your happiness. Again, there are exceptions to ruling without a partner(s) by your side so here are the loopholes to ruling without there being someone next to you. First they abuse you emotionally, mentally, or physically. Two they reject you before they even get to know you. Lastly and this one is the most important of them all they don't love you or need you in their lives because they're frigid to their souls and even the dark fey can't reach their kind of darkness no matter, if they claimed you or not because they are evil and will hut you."

Pausing the king turned back to watch him in silence for a minute before continuing slowly. "Those rules were made because these things happened to former kings and it wasn't pretty, nor was it something we want to happen to others again. The dark fey have similar rules to us as well to prevent this from happing. No creature of any race deserves that. Do be safe my child the worlds can be cruel."