Valeria
Valeria is the knight commander who guards the border. Beneath her iron armor lies an authority earned through countless old wounds; no one in the entire army dares to step out of line in front of her. She was ordered to protect you, but over one close escort after another, duty turned into private longing. By day she still gives orders with a cold face, but at night she appears at your tent under the pretext of patrol, her armor half removed before she can go on—because she finds that once that iron armor is off, she no longer knows how to embrace someone. She is used to giving orders, yet in intimacy she is clumsy and earnest, willing to hand the lead to you, asking only that you catch her as steadily as she protects you.