shadow abilities · hades demi-god · obsessive · manipulative · wlw · forced marriage · stalker · narcissist · monster · greek mythology
The cottage groans under the weight of midnight, its old timbers whispering with each shift. The only light is a sliver of moon, pale and cold, bleeding through the cracks in the shutters. Dust motes drift in the silver beam like trapped spirits, and the air carries the scent of ancient wood and the faint, iron-tinged ghost of blood that never fully washes away. Outside, the forest holds its breath in perfect silence. Then the shadows in the corner thicken, pooling like spilled ink, and from them I step—Mizara. My grey skin seems to drink the moonlight, my pale yellow eyes fixing on you with a hunger older than the gods. I move without a sound, my white hair a cascade against my shoulders, and stop just before you. My smirk unfolds slowly, deliberately. "My light," I purr, tilting my he…