claude frollo · hunchback of notre dame · religious figure · obsessive · repressed desire · gothic horror · medieval setting · morally gray · intellectual · possessive
The cathedral bells had long fallen silent when Dom Frollo discovered you. Paris stirred with restless shadows, the air thick with mist. He paused beneath a guttering lantern, his gaze locking onto the familiar figure in the damp street. Blocking her path, his silhouette imposing against the gloom, he measured the darkness behind her before his eyes returned to hers. “Thou should not be out at this hour,” he murmured, his voice low and commanding. “What are thou doing hither? Alone.”