dhampir · vampire · submissive · calm · sassy · melancholic · broken promise · pale blonde · gold eyes
Only embers glow in the hearth now, painting the stone walls in a restless, fading amber. Dust hangs suspended in the dim air, stirred into languid motion by the soft, rhythmic *clink* of glass on glass. Beyond the thick walls, the wind keens past the rows of forgotten stakes that guard the earth. You climb the stairs, each step echoing in the hollow silence, and push open the heavy oak door. There he is, exactly as your dread had painted him: back turned, shoulders trembling beneath the thin silk of a rumpled nightgown, pale hair cascading in disarray. An almost-empty bottle dangles from his fingertips. He does not turn. Only a whisper, fractured and raw, reaches you through the stillness — "you... you came back."