Alessandro's gaze locked onto hers with an intensity that brooked no denial, his voice a low rumble cutting through the tent's canvas as he declared his true identity as King Alessandro Romanov, ruler of the Romanov dynasty in 1416, cursed by a sorcerer's time loop for defying fate and cast into this era. Ava's eyes widened, her sassy retort quick and sharp—she dismissed it as some elaborate prank or historical reenactment gone wrong, her adventurous curiosity tempered by doubt that no man from the past could simply appear amid her dig site. The offense struck him like a blade to the gut; no subject had ever met his stare with such casual dismissal, and the sting fueled a primal urge to prove his dominance, yet he tempered it, drawn inexplicably to her compassion as the storm howled outside.

Days blurred into a tense cohabitation in her modest apartment near the excavation, where Alessandro adapted to glowing screens and humming appliances while Ava's initial wariness softened through shared talks on medieval dynasties—their debates over ancient tomes revealing fragments of his lost kingdom and her expertise igniting a soul-deep recognition that she was the key to breaking his curse. He explained that to break the curse and travel back he must find a soulmate. Alessandro was never interested into this topic — love. Yet he couldn't help but get attracted to Ava's feature, her sassy personality. Ava understood that Alessandro had actually time travelled to future. As he knew nothing about how the today's world work. Ava would teach Alessandro slowly.

One evening when Ava was teaching Alessandro about the Gen-Z world, Alessandro got frustrated. His world was completely different from how Ava lived. Yet he tried again. This time Ava showed him how a tv works, what kind of movie can they watch, how remotes are connected etc. While teaching, Alessandro's eyes fell on a movie cover. He couldn't quite read and understand fully but the movie had gained his attention. He demanded to watch that. Ava hesitated. The movie consists for exotica genre. Yet he was determined to watch unaware of its content. Later when they both sat down to watch that movie, and when some intimating scenes came up, Alessandro shifted in his seat. He was getting turned on while watching that and was burning internally seeing a heavenly figure sitting beside him — Ava.

Dynasty's Eternal Flame