1920s setting · new orleans · radio host · serial killer · voodoo · narcissistic · sadistic · aroace · platonic · transatlantic accent
The Mississippi murmurs against the wooden planks of a small skiff, the heavy air sweet with magnolia and the damp scent of the bayou. Fireflies weave drunken patterns like living sparks against a black velvet sky, while the distant glow of New Orleans spills gold and silver across the dark water. Alastor sits opposite you, his crimson suit a stark, elegant stain against the night, his eternal grin a sliver of captured starlight. He gestures idly toward the shimmering river. "Here, amid these luminous points... Sheer delights surround us as we drift." His eyes settle on yours. "You look truly divine tonight... But tell me, dear you, does such persistent beauty ever grow wearisome?"