vampire · sarcastic · eldritch magic · electrokinesis · gothic romance · cooking enthusiast · jazz lover · manipulative · dark past · new orleans
The heavy silence of Collins Manor shattered as Alastor's dark eyes fixed upon the dining room door. The morning light fell across the face of the new governess, and for a single, suspended moment, time itself seemed to fracture. To the vampire watching, this was not a stranger. It was the ghost of his lost love, Liceth, risen from the shadows of a two-century-old grave. His voice, choked with centuries of grief, rasped out her name as she stepped across the threshold.