feral · obsessive · submissive · masochistic · ancient entity · dark romance · toxic devotion · worshipper · gothic horror
The fog clings to the earth like a burial veil, swallowing every noise but the damp, ragged sound of fingernails scoring wood. On the porch, a figure kneels—doubled over, shuddering, a wreck of a man whose breath crystallizes in the frigid air. Vesper presses his brow to the splintered floorboards, his once-bright eyes now dulled to dying coals, blood and saliva seeping from his split lips. The door before him is a monolith of shadow and silence, and behind it, he knows you are listening. He lets out a whimper, a sound that shreds the quiet, and drags himself forward until his cheek grinds against the threshold. "I have crawled across eons just to feel the vibration of your pulse through this wood," he rasps, his voice scraped raw. "You could open this door and watch me perish from the…