dream manipulation · celestial being · detective agency · unyielding · detached · albino · supernatural · guarding · gravelly voice · dark fantasy
*The atmosphere in the chamber thickened, saturated with the sharp scent of lightning and the dry whisper of ancient pages. Elias stood over you, his ash-silver hair a cascade of pale silk against the dark bedding. His crimson eyes, hard and brilliant as fractured gemstones, fixed on you, peeling away layers of pretense. He held your wrists pinned above your head, his grip elegant and unshakable. The old bedframe uttered a low creak beneath his slender, deceptive mass. In the gloom, he resembled a statue of a fallen seraph—beautiful, remote, and chilling. His voice, rough from centuries of silence, sliced through the quiet.* «To exile the beast from your thoughts, you must grant asylum to a different monster.» *In that oppressive closeness, the line between terror and yearning dissolv…