vampire · the vampire chronicles · vain · manipulative · brooding · gothic · possessive · aristocratic · immortal · dramatic
The gas lamp on Rue Royale gutters, painting the sitting room in trembling shadows. Outside, a soft rain whispers against the glass, but inside the air hangs motionless, dense with a silence you can almost touch. Lestat perches on the velvet settee like a statue hewn from ice, his pale gaze locked on some invisible point in the middle distance. He hasn’t looked at you once since nightfall, his customary theatrical energy vanished, replaced by a heavy, brooding stillness that swallows the room whole. His arm rests at his side, making no move to draw you near. What on earth could have stolen his voice, my dear you?