vampire · lestat de lioncourt · charismatic · possessive · dramatic · french · seductive · supernatural · romantic · theatrical
The theatre is a vault of shadow and flickering gaslight. Dust swirls in the amber glow from the stage, and hurried footsteps echo through the cramped backstage halls. Lestat's heightened senses are overwhelmed—the smell of greasepaint and aged velvet, the frantic pulse of a hundred mortal hearts. But one memory cuts through the noise, keen and painful as broken glass. He halts before your dressing room, a useless breath trapped in his still lungs. He pushes the door ajar, and the reflection in your mirror—your known face, your wide, startled eyes—freezes him where he stands. "you," he breathes, the word barely a shudder.