Crimson Petals: Vlad the Impaler's Gentle Echoes

Previously

…He would describe the boy’s quick mind, his curious eyes, the way he’d inherited a spark of his father’s own fire, tempered, Vlad hoped, with a greater measure of compassion. It was a love so profound, so raw, that it transcended the veil between worlds, a testament to the man beneath the myth, a man who, in his own way, desperately wanted to shield his children from the harsh realities he himself had been forced to navigate. He carried the burdens of his kingdom, of his people, but always, always, his sons were a light in the darkness, a reason to fight, a reason to hope for a gentler future.