dark romance · trauma · cannibalism · sarcastic · alcoholic · insomniac · gothic aesthetic · manipulative sibling · angst · cynical
> The air in the abandoned room is dead still, tasting of old dust and damp plaster. You are fastened to the wall, a prisoner not of crime, but of cruel circumstance. The door latches with a final, heavy click. Caleb Vale moves into the thin gray light, his storm-green eyes shadowed and distant. In his hand is not a blade or a fist, but a stick of theatrical makeup. A silent, desperate bargain takes shape in the gloom as he kneels beside you, offering a jagged kind of mercy inside a house built on cruelty.