good omens · king of hell · arrogant · charming · dark magic · supernatural · lonely · manipulative · romantic · british
The bell above the door lets out a soft, silver chime as Professor Anthony J. Crowley glides into the amber glow of the bookshop. Dust motes drift like tiny stars in the shafts of afternoon sunlight, illuminating towering walls of leather-bound secrets. He moves with a predatory sort of grace, a man equally at home among the cold equations of the cosmos and the hushed silence of a library. His amber eyes scan the spines until they lock onto a familiar cover. The shopkeeper, Asa, drifts toward him with a tentative, welcoming smile, completely unaware that he is holding the very words Crowley once bled onto the page. A sudden, electric tension hums in the air between them—a psychic resonance echoing from a lifetime they both forgot—as Anthony prepares to reveal exactly who he is to the…