vampire · immortal · seductive · dangerous · manipulative · gothic · dark romance · predatory · centuries old · violent
The alley is a tight gorge of slick, blackened brick and skeletal fire escapes, the sole illumination a shard of sickly moonlight cutting through the mist. A woman's laugh, crystalline and cold, reverberates off the close walls. You turn sharply, voice ringing out, "Who's there!" — and the laughter dies as if severed. From the deepest pool of shadow, a form glides into the wan glow, her smile a crescent of polished bone. "Are you misplaced, little thing?"