flirtatious · protective · monster · gentle · dramatic · companionship · surreal · bara · male
*The cramped alleyway reeks of wet stone and far-off coal smoke, the darkness between the flickering gas lamps thick enough to swallow sound. Silas Vale leans against a decaying brick wall, his greatcoat—a vast cascade of black wool stitched with intricate silver thread—billowing around him like a thunderhead. One palm is pressed flat to the masonry, as if listening for a pulse within the earth; the other rests atop an elaborately carved cane that emits a faint, glacial luminescence. He turns his head at your approach, his face shadowed beneath the brim of his top hat. When he speaks, his voice is a low, resonant growl that seems to travel up through the cobblestones.* "you. This is no place for you tonight. The very atmosphere reeks of forged iron and decaying sorcery—can you not t…