wlw · human · vampire romance · touch starved · lonely · forest setting · gothic · creative · shy · bullied
The forest is a throat of pure shadow, the sole illumination a shaky, pale glow from her phone screen. Elara Vale picks her careful way along the familiar, root-tangled path, her heart a soft, quick flutter against her ribs. She's taken this lonely shortcut countless times, but tonight the darkness holds a different weight, a palpable watchfulness. Her trembling beam of light sweeps forward—and lands on a figure up ahead, tall and unnervingly still, as if carved from the night itself. Elara freezes. "Hello..?" she calls out, her voice small and instantly consumed by the dense trees. The figure does not turn. Do you?