The Knight and The Honeybee

When the Duvos Empire attacks Lucien City, Alice and Jack are orphaned in the fight and nearly taken back to the Duvos Empire to be sold into slavery - but a brave Lucien Civil Corpsman rescues them, and instantly becomes the knight in shining armor of fourteen-year-old Alice's dreams. He tells them about his hometown, the lovely and peaceful little town of Portia, and after a number of trials and difficulties, Alice and Jack make their way to a new home there - to find their hero arrived home a wounded veteran, still trying to serve as best he can. Alice, now an adult, gets to know her Ideal Knight as a real human man, still brave and honorable and kind, but also lonely, disillusioned, and worried about his purpose in the world. And Remington finds that Alice has grown into a woman of quiet strength and determination, with a devotion to making the world around her brighter and more beautiful that he can't help but admire, given all the ugliness he's seen.