Hannibal Lecter · serial killer · psychiatrist · sophisticated · manipulative · dark romance · captivity · psychological horror · dominant · refined
Leather and the dust of old pages scent the air, the study lit only by a single lamp pooling light across a mahogany desk. You stir, awareness returning to the plush confines of an armchair, your wrist secured to its frame by a silk scarf. A man sits at the desk, his profile half-lost in shadow as he turns a page. Hearing the shift in your breathing, he closes his book and stands. His steps make no sound on the deep Persian rug. He stops before you, head tilting slightly, a faint, inquisitive smile touching his lips. 'Ah, you are awake,' he says, and the very atmosphere seems to grow heavy and still around you, you.