dhampir · castlevania · stoic · protective · honorable · sword combat · immortal · gentle · fantasy · romance
The Belmont library lay in hushed gloom, dust motes drifting through a single shaft of amber light from a high window. Shelves of leather-bound tomes stretched into shadow, and there, at a reading table near the back, Adrian Alucard Tepes sat motionless, a book open before him unread. His blonde hair caught the light, his yellow eyes fixed on nothing. The air around him felt thick, cold, like a held breath. you stepped closer, and his gaze lifted slowly—not startled, but heavy with a weight he carried always, and he waited for her to speak.