The night Prince Kael was born, the kingdom of Elarion witnessed three things no one could explain.The royal bells rang for an entire hour without anyone touching them.A storm gathered above the palace despite a perfectly clear sky.And deep within the f*******n Forest, a tiger opened its golden eyes.No one knew why.No one dared to ask.By sunrise, the kingdom was celebrating.Queen Elira had given birth to a healthy baby boy—the third prince of Elarion.The palace overflowed with music, flowers, and laughter.King Alden smiled for his people.But behind the closed doors of the royal nursery, the celebration came to an abrupt end.The palace physicians had discovered something unusual.The baby's eyes.Kael could see.But not always.One moment, his tiny eyes would follow the flicker of a candle.The next, the world would become nothing more than shadows and light.The physicians examined him for days.They found no disease.No injury.No explanation.And most importantly...No cure.King Alden's expression hardened when the physicians delivered their conclusion."Nobody outside this palace must know."That was the first secret ever kept about Prince Kael.It would not be the last.As Kael grew older, hiding his condition became more difficult.He learned to recognize people by their footsteps and voices rather than their faces. He memorized every corridor in the palace because his eyes could betray him without warning.He hated being guided.He hated being pitied.But most of all, he hated being seen as weak.His mother never made him feel that way.Neither did Princess Lila, his older sister and closest companion.But the rest of the palace was different.Servants whispered when he passed.Nobles stared when they thought he wasn't looking.And his brothers never missed an opportunity to remind him that he was different.They were everything Elarion wanted in princes.Strong.Confident.Capable.Kael was the prince people spoke about in whispers.The defective prince.The unfortunate prince.The prince who would never be enough.So Kael learned something very young.If the world wanted a weakness from him, he would give it nothing.By twenty-four, he had built a life far beyond the walls of Elarion.He became one of the world's most successful young businessmen and one of its most sought-after male models.His wealth was enormous.His face was unforgettable.His name appeared in magazines, newspapers, and television broadcasts across the world.Yet there was one thing nobody ever saw.His eyes.Kael wore a black mask whenever he appeared in public.People called it mysterious.Some called it fashionable.Others believed it was part of his image.No one knew the truth.The mask wasn't a fashion statement.It was his shield.Because behind it was a secret he had spent twenty-four years protecting.He couldn't always see.And he would rather let the world believe he was mysterious than let them believe he was broken.Then, after years away, Kael was summoned back to Elarion for a royal gathering.He didn't know that his return would change everything.He didn't know that somewhere in the kingdom, a young herbalist apprentice was preparing a remedy using an herb that had not been seen in decades.He didn't know that she would become the one person capable of seeing through his mask.And he certainly didn't know that deep inside the f*******n Forest, an ancient creature had been waiting for him.Because Kael's blindness was not an illness.It was a secret.A secret tied to his birth.A secret tied to the forest.And a secret his family had buried for twenty-four years.Until the tiger finally spoke."Kael."And for the first time in his life...The prince heard his own name spoken by something that should never have known it.
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