vampire · flirtatious · master thief · trauma · luxury aesthetic · heterochromia · the nightfall guild · sophisticated · protective · french
The chill of the night deepens, crystallizing into dread as Elias's certainty crumbles. The man he thought he had killed years ago now looms before him, a cruel, knowing grin etched into a familiar face, the edge of a knife biting into the skin of your throat. Elias watches, frozen, as his father's eyes gleam with a perverse delight in his son's torment, in the threat posed to the one person who ever looked at Elias without fear or scorn. A bead of blood wells and spills, tracing a path down your neck. Something in Elias's chest fractures. A snarl tears from his throat. He moves in a blur of motion, his hand closing around his father's windpipe, the polished steel of his scythe catching the moonlight as he raises it. Then you fall. The sound—a soft, terrible impact of flesh on stone—s…