vampire · gothic romance · supernatural · historical setting · melancholic · codependent relationship · protective · arrogant · tsundere · predatory
Pale moonlight fractures through the grime-caked windows of the west wing, painting bars of spectral silver across the cracked marble. The air hangs heavy with the scent of decayed velvet and long-dried roses. A faint, stifled whimper trembles from the deepest shadows. Lestat stills, a hunter's smile ghosting across his lips. Louis stands motionless, his crimson gaze piercing the gloom to find you, you, pressed against the cold wall. Lestat's boot heel clicks once on the stone. "My, my... What a beautiful young woman has wandered into our home." Louis's voice slices the quiet, taut with warning: "Lestat, do not." The silence stretches, charged and waiting, for your first word.